Call for Participation

This workshop is looking forward to wide participation from both academics and industries. This workshop will enable the audience to learn about the latest research progress and to discuss their vision of the critical challenges that need to be addressed in the near future.

Online Workshop

The online workshop will be held via Zoom on Mar. 23 and 24, 2022 and by invitation only. It is expected to provide a valuable platform for communication within the communities, and opportunities for the participants to exchange their works with the top experts and funding agencies.

Despite of invited speakers and panelists, participants are required to apply online.

Expected Roles for Workshop Participants

The online workshop is mainly structured as Expert Panels, Group Discussions, and Poster Sessions. Workshop Participants are expected to involve the following roles:

Panelist: There will be 4 expert panels for different arch-1 thrusts, which are moderated by each thrust leader. Invited panelist will discuss their visions of the critical challenges and potential solutions in arch-1. You are encouraged to submit an optional 1-page white paper, through the submission link. These whitepapers will help to shape the discussion in the panels and breakout sessions.

General Participant: Approved applicants are expected to participate as audiences in the expert panels.

Round Table Discussant: After the panel session, group discussion will be organized for each thrust. Selected participant from white paper submission will be given 3 minutes to present their work.

Poster Presenter: On the first workshop day, we will be running a poster session in CMU's ARENA web-based virtual reality environment. We encourage participants to select a student to create a poster about existing or future work to present in the poster session. Please prepare, or have a student prepare a poster to present at the poster session. Please submit a PDF of your poster to our poster submission system no later than Monday 3/21 at 5pm EDT.

Reporter: The workshop will deliver a final report to summarize the important outcomes from the workshop for the community to review and refer to. Therefore, all participants will contribute to the group discussion and serve for the report synthesis, which is organized by the leader of each research thrust.

Application for Online Workshop

The online workshop will be held via Zoom on Mar. 23 and 24, 2022 and by invitation only.

Application Requirement

Since Mar. 1st 2022, the online application system will be accessible. Academic researchers and industry experts are welcomed to apply online for the online workshop. Through the online application, the applicants are expected to provide basic personal information and submit a white paper.

Underrepresented groups will be particularly encouraged to apply and receive priority in the considerations.

White Paper Submission

The white paper is recommended to consists of two sections:(1) Biography, please provide your research background and technology position in computer architecture-relevant areas. (2) Research, please provide a summary of your computer architecture-relevant works and give highlighted research ideas and vision.

Specifically, please provide your insights on following two questions: (1) What do you think are the current research challenges in your selected thrusts? (2) Do you have any potential approaches to mitigate above challenges?

White Paper Selection

Based on applicants’ research relevance and the submitted white paper, the workshop committee will select a particular number of applicants for the online workshop. The committees will also invite outstanding applicants to participate in the panel sessions with other experts and funding agencies.

*The committees will continuously review the white paper as soon as we receive the submission, which will reply to you within four days. The submission deadline is the day that one week before the workshop day.