Workshop on Compilers and Operating Systems for Low Power (COLP'02)

Power consumption has increasingly become important in computer systems. Current designs of processor cores are predicting power figures above 100 Watts. The management of power consumption while simultaneously delivering acceptable levels of performance is becoming a critical task with the proliferation of application domains such as wireless communication and embedded signal processing. In addition, it has become increasingly important to manage power consumption in high-performance, general purpose microarchitectures. It has been forecast that, without significant advances in design for low power, processors of the future will consume hundreds of watts of power. We believe that a synergistic hardware-software approach is required. A lot of attention has been paid to optimizing power at the circuit and gate levels. Recently, power optimizations at the architecture and software (i.e., compiler, operating system, and application) level have begun to receive increasing attention. The purpose of this workshop is to draw together researchers and practitioners concerned with compiler and operating system support for low power for a stimulating exchange of views. Presentations from invited speakers from both the industry and academia will provide insights into emerging issues related to this area of research. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• Static and dynamic compilation strategies to reduce power and energy consumption.
• Architecture-level power analysis, power efficient instruction issue mechanisms, experimental analysis of low power cache organizations.
• Power estimation/optimization techniques for parallel architectures.
• Quantitative evaluation of power and energy consumption for general and special purpose applications.
• Application tuning for efficient battery utilization.
• Strategies for multi-criteria optimization involving power, performance, cost, etc.
• Operating system solutions for low power including dynamic power management policies and energy efficient scheduling strategies.

Submission Guidelines

• author's name(s),
• postal address,
• phone and FAX numbers,
• email address,
• title,
• 5 keywords and
• abstract.

Please email submissions by August 10, 2002. You should receive an acknowledgment of your submission by the following week. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by August 23, 2002 and the final papers are due by September 13, 2002.

Workshop Co-Chairs

Program Committee