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{{Event
 | Acronym = WDA 2008
 | Title = Workshop on Dependable Architectures
 | Type = Workshop
 | Series = 
 | Field = Computer security and reliability
 | Homepage = www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/carch/wda08
 | Start date = Nov 9, 2008 
 | End date =  Nov 9, 2008
 | City= Lake Como
 | State = 
 | Country =  Italy
 | Abstract deadline = 
 | Submission deadline = Sep 8, 2008
 | Notification = Oct 6, 2008
 | Camera ready = Oct 13, 2008
}}

==WDA-3 2008==

3rd Workshop on Dependable Architectures
(extends previously held Workshop on Architectural Reliability - WAR)

In conjunction with the

==41st International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-41)==

Sunday, November 9, 2008
Lake Como, Italy

==Scope==

Current computer technology trends present to the hardware and software designer novel opportunities to improve performance and at the same time many challenges to overcome. One of the formidable challenges is to provide dependable operation - in terms of reliability and availability - for a system made of unreliable components.

The combination of various developments brought dependability to prominence: soft-error rate is projected to increase with scaling; variability due to non-deterministic placement of dopant atoms and channel length is increasing design margins; better than worst-case design techniques for power/performance require error detection/correction; aggressive application of power-saving mechanisms such as clock- and Vdd-gating are increasing voltage droops; the verification manpower budget is becoming a significant part of the design effort; oxide breakdown and electromigration are decreasing processor lifetimes.

New research frontiers are therefore open for exploration that will lead to the discovery and development of dependable architectures, this includes research at all design levels: circuit, architecture, compiler, OS and network. This workshop aims to become a forum for academia and industry to discuss and present ideas and recent developments in the design and evaluation of dependable architectures both software and hardware.

==Call for papers==
Two kinds of papers are invited:
1. Technical papers (at least 6 pages) for relatively mature ideas.
2. Position papers (3 pages maximum) on directions for research and development.

Please submit an electronic copy of your paper (in PDF) in two column format with at least 10pt font. Submission instructions and other workshop related information will appear here.

The selected papers will be made available online. However, publication in WDA does not preclude later publication at regular conferences or journals.

Topics of interest include but not limited:

* Multi-core Dependability Challenges and Opportunities
* Compiler and Operating System Aware Dependability
* Dependable On-chip Interconnect and Routing
* Soft-error measurement, modeling and mitigation techniques
* Lifetime reliability
* Better than worst case design
* Dynamic verification techniques
* Approximate processing and reliability
* Process Variation Aware Design
* Techniques for reducing impact of variability:
** Temperature, Voltage droops, dI/dT, Crosstalk
* Fault-aware computing:
** Fault injection, detection, Error modeling, Fail-safe and fail-stop systems, Time and space redundancy, dRedundancy/dEnergy (dR/dE) -efficient architectures
* Compiler/architecture/OS synergistic techniques and interaction for dependability 

==Important Dates==

Paper due: September 8, 2008 (11.59PM PDT)
Notification: October 6, 2008
Final paper due: October 13, 2008

==Co-Organizers==
Yiannakis Sazeides, University of Cyprus
Osman Unsal, Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Oguz Ergin, TOBB University of Economic and Technology

==Program Committee==
* [[has PC member::Todd Austin]] University of Michigan
* [[has PC member::David Brooks]] Harvard University
* [[has PC member::Veerle Desmet]] Ghent University
* [[has PC member::Oguz Ergin]] TOBB University of Economic and Technology
* [[has PC member::Babak Falsafi]] EPFL
* [[has PC member::C. Mani Krishna]] UMass, Amherst
* [[has PC member::Shubu Mukherjee]] Intel
* [[has PC member::Onur Mutlu]] Microsoft
* [[has PC member::Jude Rivers]] IBM
* [[has PC member::Yiannakis Sazeides]] University of Cyprus
* [[has PC member::Osman Unsal]] Barcelona Supercomputing Center
* [[has PC member::Xavi Vera]] Intel
* [[has PC member::David Kaeli]] Northeastern University

==Previous Workshops==
WAR-1 (2005)
WAR-2 (2006)


Webmaster:
Constantinos Kourouyiannis, University of Cyprus
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Acronym	WDA 2008 +
Camera ready due	October 13, 2008 +
End date	November 9, 2008 +
Event type	Workshop +
Has PC member	Todd Austin +, David Brooks +, Veerle Desmet +, Oguz Ergin +, Babak Falsafi +, C. Mani Krishna +, Shubu Mukherjee +, Onur Mutlu +, Jude Rivers +, Yiannakis Sazeides +, Osman Unsal +, Xavi Vera + and David Kaeli +
Has coordinates	45° 59' 30", 9° 15' 54"Latitude: 45.991758333333 Longitude: 9.2648805555556 +
Has location city	Lake Como +
Has location country	Category:Italy +
Homepage	http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/carch/wda08 +
IsA	Event +
Notification	October 6, 2008 +
Start date	November 9, 2008 +
Submission deadline	September 8, 2008 +
Title	Workshop on Dependable Architectures +