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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">SEAK: DAC Workshop on Suite of Embedded Applications and Kernels</span><br style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">
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<span style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">Workshop held in conjunction with DAC - Design Automation Conference</span><br style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">
<a href="http://www.dac.com" style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px" target="_blank">http://www.dac.com</a><br style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">
<span style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">Sunday, June 1 2014</span><br style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">
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<span style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">Call for Posters</span><br style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">
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<span style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">Evaluating, benchmarking and classifying embedded systems are challenging tasks. By definition, an embedded system is application specific. Furthermore, an embedded system is designed to fit within certain
 constraints dictated by their target application areas. Aspects such as power consumption, real time awareness, reliability, accuracy of the computation, cost, device and physical size are all metrics under which an embedded system can be classified and that
 have a direct influence on the overall system performance. All these contrasting metrics define how well an embedded system can address its target application. An additional challenge derives from the fact that modern embedded systems are composed of a multitude
 of heterogeneous processing elements and components. They include general-purpose processors, digital signal processors, graphic processors, application specific accelerators, reconfigurable logic and more. These components can be either off-the-shelf or custom
 designed. Embedded systems often present disparate types of memory hierarchies. Also the software toolchain, which includes compilers, synthesizers and optimization tools, may have significant impacts on the metrics.</span><br style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">
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<span style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">This workshop is related to a new DARPA initiative in this arena called SEAK (Suite of Embedded Applications and Kernels), whose goal is to define a new, open suite of benchmarks, together with a novel methodology
 to evaluate in terms of performance and power end-to-end embedded systems for DOD’s application areas.</span><br style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">
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<span style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">The SEAK workshop solicits short abstracts for a poster session, open to academia and industry. Areas of particular interest for this assembly are research topics that identify and analyze novel ideas, rather
 than providing incremental advances, on the following themes:</span><br style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">
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<span style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">* Benchmark and micro-benchmark creation, analysis, and evaluation issues</span><br style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">
<span style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">* Characterization of relevant workloads for embedded systems</span><br style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">
<span style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">* Modeling of application and system behavior</span><br style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">
<span style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">* Tools for analyzing power and energy with different granularities and scope from hardware (e.g. component, core, system) or software views (e.g. threads, tasks, processes, etc) or both (end-to-end systems)</span><br style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">
<span style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">* Definition, identification of metrics that determine the suitability of an embedded system for its target applications, and their collection methodologies</span><br style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">
<span style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">* Characterization of current state-of-the art embedded systems in terms of power and performance</span><br style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">
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<span style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">Confirmed invited speakers for the workshop include: Joseph Cross (DARPA), Jeff Bier (BDTi), Richard Lethin (Reservoir Labs), Jeffrey Smith (BAE Systems), Sek Chai (SRI International), Markus Levy (EEEMBC),
 Albert Reuther (MIT Lincoln Lab)</span><br style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">
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<span style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">Important dates</span><br style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">
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<span style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">Abstract submission: 22 April 2014 (EXTENDED)</span><br style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">
<span style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">Notification of Acceptance:&nbsp; 30 April 2014 (EXTENDED)</span><br style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">
<span style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">Workshop: 1 June 2014</span><br style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">
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<span style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">Abstract submission guidelines</span><br style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">
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<span style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">Submission site:&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=seak2014" style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px" target="_blank">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=seak2014</a><br style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">
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<span style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">All submissions should be maximum 2 pages in double-column, single-spaced letter format, using 10-point size fonts, with at least one-inch margins on each side, including references. The submission can also
 include a draft of the poster as an additional page.</span><br style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">
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<span style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">Authors of accepted abstracts will be given a poster board for presenting their work at the workshop.</span><br style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">
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<span style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">Organizers</span><br style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">
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<span style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">Adolfy Hoisie, PNNL, USA</span><br style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">
<span style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">Darren Kerbyson, PNNL, USA</span><br style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">
<span style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">Joseph Cross, DARPA, USA</span><br style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">
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<span style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">Program Chair</span><br style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">
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<span style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">Antonino Tumeo, PNNL, USA</span><br style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">
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<span style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">Program Committee</span><br style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">
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<span style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">Kevin Barker, PNNL, USA</span><br style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">
<span style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">Simone Campanoni, Harvard University, USA</span><br style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">
<span style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">Sek Chai, SRI International, USA</span><br style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">
<span style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">Roberto Gioiosa, PNNL, USA</span><br style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">
<span style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">Richard Lethin, Reservoir Labs, USA</span><br style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">
<span style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">Martina Maggio, Lund University, Sweden</span><br style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">
<span style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">Joseph Manzano, PNNL, USA</span><br style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">
<span style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">Andres Marquez, PNNL, USA</span><br style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">
<span style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">David Novo Bruna, EPFL, Switzerland</span>
<div><font face="monospace" size="4">Gianluca Palermo, Politenico di Milano, Italy</font><br style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">
<span style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">Francesco Regazzoni, Alari, Switzerland&nbsp;</span><br style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">
<span style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">Simone Secchi, ARM, UK</span>
<div><span style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">Jeffrey Smith, BAE Systems, USA</span><br style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">
<span style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">Shuaiwen Song, PNNL, USA</span><br style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">
<span style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">Nathan Tallent, PNNL, USA</span><br style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">
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<span style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">Best Regards,</span><br style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">
<span style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">Antonino Tumeo</span><br style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">
<span style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">Research Scientist</span><br style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">
<span style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">High Performance Computing</span><br style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">
<span style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">Pacific Northwest National Laboratory</span><br style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">
<span style="font-family:monospace; font-size:16px">antonino.tumeo@pnnl.gov</span><br>
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