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Best of SBAC-PAD 2012

Lucas Mello Schnorr, Philippe Olivier Alexandre Navaux

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Best of SBAC-PAD 2012

Lucas Mello Schnorra,∗, Philippe Olivier Alexandre Navauxa
a Informatics Institute – Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul – PO Box 15064 CEP 91501-970 – Porto Alegre - RS - Brazil

Abstract
This special issue presents new trends in computer architecture and in parallel and distributed systems. It is based on the best
papers of the 24th International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing, which was held in New
York, NY, USA on October 24-26, 2012 in the Columbia University. The authors were invited to provide extended versions of
the papers presented in the conference, taking into account suggestions by the double-blinded peer review process and comments
gathered during the conference.

c 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd.

Keywords:
computer architecture, parallel and distributed systems, high performance computing

1. Presentation and Background

This special issue presents leading edge developments in high performance applications, as well as the latest
trends in computer architecture and parallel and distributed technologies. It is based on extended, revised papers
from the 24th International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD).
The authors were invited to provide extended versions of the papers presented in the conference, taking into account
suggestions by the double-blinded peer review process and comments gathered during the conference.
Contributions have been provided by Ramos and Bianchini, Jann et al., Meneses et al. and by Milanez et al.. The
covered topics include the following:

• improving performance of cooperative caches using popularity information

• automated and transparent OS crashes diagnosis and recovery in virtual environments
• an analytical model to understand and represent energy consumption of rollback-recovery mechanisms
• a new thread synchronizaton heuristic and memory coalescing for SPMD workloads

The 24th edition of the SBAC-PAD series has presented an overview of new developments, applications, and trends
in parallel and distributed computing technologies. Within this scope, the 24th edition invited authors to submet
manuscripts on these topics of interest: Application-specific systems; Benchmarking, performance measurements,

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Email addresses: schnorr@inf.ufrgs.br (Lucas Mello Schnorr), navaux@inf.ufrgs.br (Philippe Olivier Alexandre Navaux)
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and analysis; Cloud, Grid, cluster, and peer-to-peer systems; Embedded and pervasive systems; GPUs, FPGAs and
other accelerator architectures; Languages, compilers, and tools for parallel and distributed programming; Modeling
and simulation methodology; Operating systems and virtualization; Parallel and distributed systems, algorithms, and
applications; Power and energy-efficient systems; Processor, cache, memory, storage, and network architecture; Real-
world applications and case studies; and Reconfigurable and fault-tolerant systems. The conference was held in New
York, NY, USA on October 24-26, 2012 in Columbia University.

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the authors for contributing papers on their research on latest trends in computer archi-
tecture and in parallel and distributed systems for this special issue, and all the reviewers for providing feedback,
helping to improve the quality of this special issue. We would like to thank Jeff Hollingsworth and Denis Trystram
for providing us an opportunity to organize this special issue.

References
[1] J. Jann, R.S. Burugula, C.E. Wu, and K. El Maghraoui. An os-hypervisor infrastructure for automated os crash diagnosis and recovery in a
virtualized environment. In Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD), 2012 IEEE 24th International Symposium
on, pages 195–202, Oct 2012.
[2] E. Meneses, O. Sarood, and L.V. Kale. Assessing energy efficiency of fault tolerance protocols for hpc systems. In Computer Architecture and
High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD), 2012 IEEE 24th International Symposium on, pages 35–42, Oct 2012.
[3] T. Milanez, S. Collange, F.M.Q. Pereira, W. Meira, and R.A. Ferreira. Data and instruction uniformity in minimal multi-threading. In Computer
Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD), 2012 IEEE 24th International Symposium on, pages 270–277, Oct 2012.
[4] L. Ramos and R. Bianchini. Exploiting phase-change memory in cooperative caches. In Computer Architecture and High Performance
Computing (SBAC-PAD), 2012 IEEE 24th International Symposium on, pages 227–234, Oct 2012.