February 12-16, 2005

San Francisco, California

HPCA-11 is the eleventh in the series of International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture and provides a high quality forum for scientists and engineers to present their latest research findings in this rapidly changing field.

This is a draft summary report of the workshop.

The Workshop W6: Hardware Performance Monitor Design and Functionality, materials and program are available below.

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Sunday February 13th

• Breakfast from 7:30 - 8:30
  
  Hosts:
  Olaf Lubeck – Los Alamos National Laboratory (Morning Sessions Chair)
  Phil Mucci – Univeristy of Tennesee
  Rob Fowler – Rice University
  Mike Lang – Los Alamos National Laboratory (Afternoon Sessions Chair)
  

• 8:30 Welcome
  Olaf Lubeck – Los Alamos National Laboratory (Morning Sessions Chair)
  

• 8:40 – 10:15 User Space
  Performance Hardware – "If I ran the world” (15 mins)
  Rob Fowler – Rice University
  
  "What we need to be able to count to tune programs” (15 Mins)
  Mustafa M. Tikir, Bryan R. Buck, Jeffery K. Hollingsworth – University of Maryland
  
  “Efficient Collection of Information on the Locality of Accesses” (15 mins)
  Irina Chihaia, Thomas Gross – ETH Zurich
  
  “Hardware Performance Counters for Detailed Runtime Power and Thermal Estimations:Experiences and Proposals” (15 mins)
  Canturk Isci, Gilberto Contreras, Margaret Martonosi – Princeton University
  

• User Space Discussion 1 (35 minutes)

• Morning break 10:15 - 10:30

• 10:30 - 12:00 User Space (continued)
  “System Wide Performance Monitors”
  Jean Francois Collard, Norm Jouppi – Hewlett Packard Laboratories
  
  “Performance Monitoring Hardware will Always be A Low Priority, Second Class Feature in Processor Designs Until ...” (15 mins)
  Brinkley Sprunt – Bucknell University
  
  “Using Hardware Event Counters for Continuous, Online System Optimization: Lessons and Challenges” (15 mins)
  Christos D. Antonopoulos, Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos
  
  “A Vision for Next Generation System Monitoring” (15 mins)
  Martin Schulz – Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Brian White, Sally A. McKee – Cornell, HsienHsin Lee – Georgia Tech.
  

• User Space Discussion 2 (30 mins)

• Lunch 12:00 - 1:00
  

• 1:00 - 2:35 Architecture Space
  “Sun's Perspective on Hardware Performance Monitoring”
  Marty Itzkowitz – Sun (35 mins)
  
  “The NUMA Challenge”
  Bill Brantley – AMD (25 mins)
  
  “Experiences with Perfmon”
  Stephane Eranian – HP (15 mins)
  
  Architecture Space Discussion 1 (30 mins)
  
• **Afternoon break 2:45 - 3:00
  

• 3:00 - 4:55 Architecture Space (continued)
  “Confessions of a Performance Monitor Hardware Designer”
  Jim Callister – HP/Intel (25 mins)
  
  “The PowerPC Performance Monitor”
  Alex Mericas – IBM (25 mins)
  
  “Performance Monitoring on Pentium 4 Processors”
  Nidhi Nidhi – Intel (25 mins)
  

• Architecture Space Discussion 2 (30 mins)
  “Summary and wrap up”
  Phil Mucci (15 Mins)
  

• 6:30 Reception