This document provides the program details for the ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers 2015, including the schedule, list of sessions, and descriptions of keynote speakers and topics. The conference will take place from May 18-21, 2015 in Ischia, Italy, and will include workshops, paper presentations, posters, and two keynote speeches on network algorithms and digital transformation.

1. Workshop / Industry Sessions
Proposal Deadline
Saturday November 1, 2014,
11:59.59 PM (PST)
Friday October 3, 2014,
11:59.59 PM (PST)
Paper/Poster Submission
Deadline
Friday January 30, 2015,
11:59.59 PM (PST)
Friday January 16, 2015,
11:59.59 PM (PST)
Author Notification
Monday March 2, 2015
Camera-Ready Papers Due
Friday March 20, 2015
Submit your paper here
General Chairs
Claudia Di Napoli
ICAR-CNR, IT
Valentina Salapura
IBM, US
Program Chairs
Hubertus Franke
IBM Research, US
Rui Hou
Institute for Computing
Technology, Chinese Academy of
Sciences, PRC
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ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers 2015
May 18 - 21, 2015, Ischia, Italy
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Program Overview
Detailed Schedule
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2. Monday May 18
13:00 Registration open
14:00-17:00 Workshops
Individual workshop programs to be announced.
Tuesday May 19
08:45 Registration open
08:55-09:00 Conference Opening
09:00-10:00 Keynote 1
Chair: Claudia Di Napoli
Network Oblivious Algorithms
Gianfranco Bilardi (abstract/bio)
10:00-10:20 (break)
10:20-11:35 Session Modeling and Characterization - I
Chair: Francesca Palumbo
10:20-10:45 An Empirical High level performance model for future many-cores
Surya Narayanan Natarajan, Bharath Narasimha Swamy and André Seznec
10:45-11:10 Just-in-time Component-wise Power and Thermal Modeling
Shah Mohammad Faizur Rahman, Qing Yi and Houman Homayoun
11:10-11:35 An Instrumentation Approach for Hardware-Agnostic Software Characterization
Andreea Anghel, Laura Mihaela Vasilescu, Rik Jongerius, Gero Dittmann and Giovanni Mariani
11:35-11:45 (short break)
11:45-13:00 Session Computer Architectures
Chair: Carsten Trinitis
11:45-12:10 Near Threshold Cloud Processors for Dark Silicon Mitigation: The Impact on Emerging Scale-out
Workloads
Jing Wang, Junwei Zhang, Weigong Zhang, Keni Qiu, Tao Li and Minhua Wu
12:10-12:35 An energy-efficient custom architecture for the SKA1-Low central signal processor
Leandro Fiorin, Erik Vermij, Jan Van Lunteren, Rik Jongerius and Christoph Hagleitner
12:35-13:00 Data Access Optimization in a Processing-in-Memory System
Zehra Sura, Arpith Jacob, Tong Chen, Bryan Rosenburg, Olivier Sallenave, Carlo Bertolli, Samuel
Antao, Jose Brunheroto, Yoonho Park, Kevin O'Brien and Ravi Nair
13:00-14:20 (lunch)
14:20-15:35 Session Compilers/Languages and Frameworks
Chair: Antonio Tumeo
14:20-14:45 Compiler Analysis for OpenMP Tasks Correctness
Sara Royuela, Roger Ferrer, Diego Caballero and Xavier Martorell
14:45-15:10 Genesis: A Language for Generating Synthetic Training Programs for Machine Learning
Alton Chiu, Joseph Garvey and Tarek Abdelrahman
15:10-15:35 A Significance-Driven Programming Framework for Energy-Constrained Approximate Computing
Vassilis Vassiliadis, Charalampos Chalios, Konstantinos Parasyris, Christos D. Antonopoulos, Spyros
Lalis, Nikolaos Bellas, Hans Vandierendonck and Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos
15:35:16:00 (break)
16:00-17:00 Poster Flash Talks
Chair: Hubertus Franke
ProductiveC: Enabling High Productivity in C-Family Languages
Hongbo Rong
Heterogeneous Energy-Efficient Cache Design in Warehouse Scale Computers
Jing Wang, Xiaoyan Zhu, Jiaqi Zhang, Minhua Wu, Weigong Zhang and Keni Qiu
B2L: A Case for Buffered and Bufferless Hybrid NoCs
Juan Fang, Sitong Liu, Zhenyu Leng, Shuying Song, Jianhua Wei and Yuening Wang
Removing Duplicated Writes in DB Checkpointing with File System-Level Block Remapping
Daejun Park and Dongkun Shin
Two-Level Logging with Non-Volatile Byte-Addressable Memory in Log-Structured File Systems
Yeonseong Hwang, Hyunho Gwak and Dongkun Shin
Handling Consistent Web Service Recovery in a RESTful Way
Anna Kobusinska, Mateusz Holenko and Piotr Zierhoffer
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3. Optimizing the Accuracy of a Satellite Trajectory Simulation by Program Transformation
Nasrine Damouche, Matthieu Martel and Alexandre Chapoutot
Enhancing an x86_64 Multi-Core Architecture with Data-Flow Execution Support
Alberto Scionti, Ho Nam, Andrea Mondelli, Marco Solinas, Antoni Portero and Roberto Giorgi
A Practical Evaluation of Synchronicity in Action Potentials with Noise
Jonathan Edwards and Simon O'Keefe
A Practical Framework for Real-time Diffusion Analysis in Social Media
Miki Enoki, Issei Yoshida and Masato Oguchi
Approximating Dictionary-Based Optimal Data Compression on a Distributed System
Sergio De Agostino:University of Rome La Sapienza
Understanding the Limiting Factors of Page Migration in Hybrid Main Memory
Santiago Bock, Bruce Childers, Rami Melhem and Daniel Mosse
Free Atomic Consistency in Storage Class Memory with Software Based Write-Aside Persistence
Ellis Giles, Kshitij Doshi and Peter Varman
Programmer-directed Partial Redundancy for Resilient HPC
Omer Subasi, Javier Arias, Osman Unsal, Jesus Labarta and Adrian Cristal
The improved parallel Ray Casting Algorithm in embedded multi-core DSP Systems
Congliang Hu, Fugen Zhou and Li Tian
17:00-18:00 Poster Presentations
19:00 Session Welcome Reception
Wednesday May 20
09:00-10:00 Keynote 2
Chair: Valentina Salapura
From managing Data to managing Cogs: Digital Transformation & Data is changing our ways to work and interact with machines
Pietro Leo (abstract/bio)
10:00-10:20 (break)
10:20-11:35 Session Algorithms and Applications
Chair: Josef Weidendorfer
10:20-10:45 Enhanced GPU-based Distributed Breadth First Search
Giancarlo Carbone, Enrico Mastrostefano, Massimo Bernaschi, Massimiliano Fatica and Mauro Bisson
10:45-11:10 An Evaluation and Analysis of Graph Processing Frameworks on Five Key Issues
Yun Gao, Wei Zhou, Jizhong Han, Dan Meng, Zhiyong Xu and Zhang Zhang
11:10-11:35 Optimizing Irregular Applications for Energy and Performance on the Tilera Many-core Architecture
Daniel Chavarrýýa-Miranda, Ajay Panyala, Mahantesh Halappanavar, Joseph Manzano and Antonino Tumeo
11:35-11:45 (short break)
11:45-13:00 Session Fault Tolerance and Quantum Computing
Chair: Pedro Trancoso
11:45-12:10 Hierarchical Synthesis of Quantum and Reversible Architectures
Archimedes Pavlidis and Dimitris Gizopoulos
12:10-12:35 Cooperative Repair Based on Tree Structure for Multiple Failures in Distributed Storage Systems with Regenerating Codes
Xiaoqiang Pei, Yijie Wang, Xingkong Ma, Yongquan Fu and Fangliang Xu
12:35-13:00 Asteroid: Scalable Online Memory Diagnostics
Musfiq Rahman and Bruce R. Childers
13:00-14:20 (lunch)
14:20-16:00 Session Resource Management
Chair: Huo Rui
14:20-14:45 TaPEr: Tackling Power Emergencies in the Dark Silicon Era by Exploiting Resource Scalability
Hui Zhao, Mahmut Kandemir and Mary Jane Irwin
14:45-15:10 HRF: A Resources Allocation Scheme for Moldable Jobs
Song Wu, Qiong Tuo, Hai Jin, Chuxiong Yan and Qizheng Weng
15:10-15:35 Scheduling Stream Programs with Improving Arithmetic Unit Usage on NoC-based VLIW Multi-core Architectures
Guoyue Jiang, Zhaolin Li, Fang Wang and Shaojun Wei
15:35-16:00 Chrysso: An Integrated Power Manager for Constrained Many-Core Processors
Sudhanshu Shekhar Jha, Wim Heirman, Ayose Falcon, Trevor E.Carlson, Kenzo Van Craeynest, Jordi Tubella, Antonio Gonzalez and Lieven
Eeckhout
16:00:16:25 (break)
16:25-16:50 Session Modeling and Characterization - II
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4. Chair: Hubertus Franke
16:25-16:50 Achieving High Throughput and Low Delay in Mobile Data Networks by Accurately Predicting Queue Lengths
Ke Liu and Jack Y.B. Lee
16:50-17:15 Position-Aware Thread-Level Speculative Parallelization for Large-Scale Chip-multiprocessor
Li Yanhua, Youhui Zhang and Weimin Zheng
17:15-17:40 SARP: Producing Approximate Results with Small Correctness Losses for Cloud Interactive Services
Rui Han, Junwei Wang, Fengming Ge, Jose Luis Vazquez-Poletti and Jianfeng Zhan
19:00 Session Conference Banquet
Thursday May 21
09:10-10:50 Session Memory Technologies and Storage
Chair: Silvia Rossi
09:10-09:35 Software-Managed Energy-Efficient Hybrid DRAM/NVM Main Memory
Ahmad Hassan, Hans Vandierendonck and Dimitrios S.Nikolopoulos
09:35-10:00 DP^2: Reducing Transaction Overhead with Differential and Dual Persistency in Persistent Memory
Long Sun, Jiwu Shu and Youyou Lu
10:00-10:25 Dysource: A High Performance and Scalable NAND Flash Controller Architecture Based on Source Synchronous Interface
Lizhou Wu, Nong Xiao, Fang Liu, Yimo Du, Shuo Li and Yang Ou
10:25-10:50 ETD-Cache: An Expiration-Time Driven Cache Scheme to Make SSD-based Read Cache Endurable and Cost-efficient
Ningwei Dai, Yunpeng Chai, Yushi Liang and Chunling Wang
10:50-11:20 (break)
11:20-13:00 Session Networking
Chair: Valentina Salapura
11:20-11:45 HOSA: Hybrid Optical Switch Architecture for Data Center Networks
Muhammad Imran, Martin Collier, Pascal Landais and Kostas Katrinis
11:45-12:10 Fast packet forwarding engine based on software circuits
Marc X. Makkes, Ana Varbanescu, Cees de Laat, and Robert Meijer
12:10:12:35 AMTCP: An Adaptive Multi-path Transmission Control Protocol
Long Li, Nongda Hu, Ke Liu, Binzhang Fu, Mingyu Chen and Lixin Zhang
12:35-13:00 BandArb: Mitigating the Effects of Thermal and Process Variations in Silicon-Photonic Network
Yi Xu, Jun Yang and Rami Melhem
13:00-14:20 (lunch)
14:20-15:35 Session Tools and Social
Chair: Jens Breitbart
14:20-14:45 Scaling Application Properties to Exascale
Giovanni Mariani, Andreea Anghel, Rik Jongerius, and Gero Dittmann
14:45-15:10 Moving to Memoryland: In-Memory Computation for Existing Applications
Pedro Trancoso
15:10-15:35 Socialness in the Recruiting of Software Engineers
Jens Ehlers
15:35-15:45 Closing
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