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Technical Program |
| Wednesday, 13 June 2007 | Thursday, 14 June 2007 | |
| 8:00 – 8:40 | Breakfast | Breakfast |
| 8:40 – 9:40 |
Welcome
Keynote: David Johnson What is the Science in Experimental Computer Science? |
Connections:
The User In Experimental Computer Systems Research Peter A. Dinda, Gokhan Memik, Robert P. Dick, Bin Lin, Arindam Mallik, Ashish Gupta, and Samuel Rossoff Experimental Economics and Experimental Computer Science: A Survey Jens Grossklags |
| 9:40 – 9:55 | Break | Break |
| 9:55 – 11:25 |
Measurement Challenge:
Quantifying The Cost of Context Switch Chuanpeng Li, Chen Ding, and Kai Shen Context Switch Overheads for Linux on ARM Platforms Francis M. David, Jeffrey C. Carlyle, and Roy H. Campbell The Context-Switch Overhead Inflicted by Hardware Interrupts (and the Enigma of Do-Nothing Loops) Dan Tsafrir |
Theory:
High-Contrast Algorithm Behavior: Observation, Hypothesis, and Experimental Design Matthias F. Stallmann and Franc Brglez Performance Testing of Combinatorial Solvers With Isomorph Class Instances Franc Brglez and Jason A. Osborne EXACT: The EXperimental Algorithmics Computational Toolkit William E. Hart, Jonathan W. Berry, Robert Heaphy, and Cynthia A. Phillips |
| 11:30 – 12:30 | FCRC Planery (Avi Wigderson) | FCRC Planery (Guy Steele) |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch | Lunch |
| 13:30 – 15:30 |
Measurements and Metrics:
Analysis of Input-Dependent Program Behavior Using Active Profiling Xipeng Shen, Chengliang Zhang, Chen Ding, Michael L. Scott, Sandhya Dwarkadas, and Mitsunori Ogihara Quantifying the Performance Isolation Properties of Virtualization Systems Jeanna Neefe Matthews, Wenjin Hu, Madhujith Hapuarachchi, Todd Deshane, Demetrios Dimatos, Gary Hamilton, Michael McCabe, and James Owens An Analysis of XML Compression Efficiency Christopher J. Augeri, Barry E. Mullins, Leemon C. Baird III, Dursun A. Bulutoglu, and Rusty O. Baldwin Towards User-Centric Metrics for Denial-Of-Service Measurement Jelena Mirkovic, Alefiya Hussain, Brett Wilson, Sonia Fahmy, Peter Reiher, Roshan Thomas, Wei-Min Yao, and Stephen Schwab |
Architecture:
Pipeline Spectroscopy Thomas R. Puzak, A. Hartstein, P. G. Emma, V. Srinivasan, and Arthur Nadas Measuring Performance, Power, and Temperature from Real Processors Francisco J. Mesa-Martinez, Michael Brown, Joseph Nayfach-Battilan, and Jose Renau Introducing Entropies for Representing Program Behavior and Branch Predictor Performance Takashi Yokota, Kanemitsu Ootsu, and Takanobu Baba Empirical Performance Assessment Using Soft-Core Processors on Reconfigurable Hardware Richard Hough, Praveen Krishnamurthy, Roger D. Chamberlain, Ron K. Cytron, John Lockwood, and Jason Fritts |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Break | Break |
| 16:00 – 18:00 |
Education Roundtable:
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Infrastructure for experimentation:
RA: ResearchAssistant for the Computational Sciences Daniel Ramage and Adam J. Oliner An Active Approach to Measuring Routing Dynamics Induced by Autonomous Systems Samantha Lo, Rocky K. C. Chang, and Lorenzo Colitti RiceNIC: A Reconfigurable Network Interface for Experimental Research and Education Jeffrey Shafer and Scott Rixner Rapid File System Development Using ptrace Richard P. Spillane, Charles P. Wright, Gopalan Sivathanu, and Erez Zadok |