18th ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers (CF'21)

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Program Overview

Each day, the conference program starts at 15:30 CEST (UTC+2)

Detailed Program

Tuesday May 11

15:30-16:00	Welcome

16:00-16:45	Session ARM SVE for HPC [Special Session #1] Chair: Eishi Arima
	The European approach for the exascale age: the road to sovereignty. part 1: the European Context (Jean-Marc Denis). Part 2: Rhea, The European Microprocessor (Craig Prunty) Jean-Marc Denis and Craig Prunty
	Leveraging SVE for HPC workloads Fabrice Dupros
	SVE in LLVM Will Lovett
	Wisteria/BDEC-01 & h3-Open-BDEC: Innovative Scientific Computing in the Exascale Era Kengo Nakajima
	Performance Characteristics of A64FX Processor Mitsuhisa Sato
	Initial experiences with the Ookami A64FX testbed Andrew Burford, Alan C. Calder, David Carlson, Barbara Chapman, Firat Coşkun, Tony Curtis, Catherine Feldman, Robert J. Harrison, Yan Kang, Benjamin Michalowicz, Eric Raut, Eva Siegmann, Daniel G. Wood, Robert L. Deleon, Mathew Jones, Nikolay A. Simakov, Joseph P. White, and Dossay Oryspayev
	Performance Engineering using SVE Intrinsics on A64FX Robert J. Harrison
	Lessons Learned: An In-depth Look at Running FLASH on Ookami Alan C. Calder, Catherine Feldman, and Benjamin Michalowicz

16:45-17:15	Session Computer Architecture Chair: Carsten Trinitis
	Ultra-compact Binary Neural Networks for Human Activity Recognition on RISC-V Processors Francesco Daghero, Chen Xie, Daniele Jahier Pagliari, Alessio Burrello, Marco Castellano, Luca Gandolfi, Andrea Calimera, Enrico Macii, and Massimo Poncino
	A Comparative Survey of Open-Source Application-Class RISC-V Processor Implementations Alexander Dörflinger, Mark Albers, Yejun Guan, Benedikt Kleinbeck, Harald Michalik, Raphael Klink, Chistopher Blochwitz, Anouar Nechi, and Mladen Berekovic
	Dynamic row activation mechanism for multi-core systems Tareq Alawneh, Raimund Kirner, and Catherine Menon

17:15-17:30

Break

17:30-18:30	Keynote 1 Chair: Carmen G. Almudéver
	Quantum Computing: A Scalable, Systems Approach Anne Matsuura

18:30-18:40

Break

18:40-19:00	Session Workshop MAL-IoT Chair: Francesco Regazzoni
	On Resilience of Security-oriented Error Detecting Architectures Against Power Attacks: A Theoretical Analysis Osnat Keren and Ilia Polian
	A Threat Model Method for ICS Malware: the TRISIS case Yassine Mekdad, Giuseppe Bernieri, Mauro Conti, and Abdeslam El Fergougui
	Tapeout of a RISC-V Crypto Chip with Hardware Trojans: A Case-Study on Trojan Design and Pre-Silicon Detectability Alexander Hepp and Georg Sigl
	Fault Injection Attacks on SoftMax Function in Deep Neural Networks: Extended Abstract Dirmanto Jap, Yoo-Seung Won, and Shivam Bhasin

19:00-19:45	Session Workshop Mal-IoT [live panel] Moderators: Francesco Regazzoni and Paolo Palmieri
	Panel: The ethic of things - The role of ethics in IoT security research Samuel Pagliarini, Georg T. Becker, Cees de Laat, Marc Witteman

Wednesday May 12

15:30-16:30	Session Modeling, decision making and optimization Chair: John Feo
	DFShards: Effective Construction of MRCs Online for Non-stack Algorithms Ailing Yu, Yujuan Tan, Congcong Xu, Zhulin Ma, Duo Liu, and Xianzhang Chen
	Exploring the Potential of Context-Aware Dynamic CPU Undervolting Emmanouil Maroudas, Christos Antonopoulos, Nikolaos Bellas, and Spyros Lalis
	Diolkos: Improving ethernet throughput through dynamic port selection Oceane Bel, Joosep Pata, Jean-Roch Vlimant, Justas Balcas, Maria Spiropulu, and Nathan Tallent
	A Methodology and Framework for Software Memoization of Functions Pedro Pinto and João Cardoso
	Online Model Swapping for Architectural Simulation Patrick Lavin, Jeffrey Young, Richard Vuduc, and Jonathan Beard

16:30-16:45

Break

16:45-17:15	Session Dependability Chair: Hubertus Franke
	Near Real-time Intrusion Alert Aggregation Using Concept-based Learning Gordon Werner, S. Jay Yang, and Katie Mcconky
	ShuffleFL: Gradient-Preserving Federated Learning using Trusted Execution Environment Yuhui Zhang, Zhiwei Wang, Jiangfeng Cao, Rui Hou, and Dan Meng
	An Efficient Fault Tolerant Cloud Market Mechanism for Profit Maximization Boyu Li, Bin Wu, and Guangquan Xu

17:15-17:30

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17:30-18:30	Keynote 2 Chair: Georgios Goumas
	Leveraging ML to Handle the Increasing Complexity of the Cloud Christina Delimitrou

18:30-18:45

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18:45-19:30	Session Edge Computing Chair: Vasileios Karakostas
	TEA-Fed: Time-Efficient Asynchronous Federated Learning for Edge Computing Chendi Zhou, Hao Tian, Hong Zhang, Jin Zhang, Mianxiong Dong, and Juncheng Jia
	Intelligent UAV-aided Controller Placement Scheme for Software-Defined Vehicular Networks Na Lin, Qi Zhao, and Liang Zhao
	An online guided tuning approach to run CNN pipelines on edge devices Pirah Noor Soomro, Mustafa Abduljabbar, Jeronimo Castrillon, and Miquel Pericas
	Performance Prediction for Convolutional Neural Networks on Edge GPUs Halima Bouzidi, Hamza Ouarnoughi, Smail Niar, and Abdessamad Ait El Cadi

Thursday May 13

15:30-16:15	Session FPGA for HPC [Special Session #2] Chair: Catherine Graves
	Multi-FPGA Systems towards AI Acceleration and their Power Challenges Akram Ben Ahmed
	Near memory HPC accelerator design with FPGAs Maya B. Gokhale
	HPC Accelerator evolution: How to survive the Silurian extinction Utz-Uwe Haus
	Innovative Computing Architectures with Reconfigurable Devices Michaela Blott
	Scalable Stream Computing on FPGA Cluster Kentaro Sano and Tomohiro Ueno

16:15-17:15	Session Novel Computing paradigms Chair: Sergi Abadal
	Design Space for Scaling-In General Purpose Computing within the DDR DRAM Hierarchy for Map-Reduce Workloads Siddhartha Balakrishna Rai, Anand Sivasubramaniam, Adithya Kumar, Prasanna Venkatesh Rengasamy, Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Ameen Akel, and Sean Eilert
	On the role of system software in energy management of neuromorphic computing Twisha Titirsha, Shihao Song, Adarsha Balaji, and Anup Das
	Reducing quantum annealing biases for solving the graph partitioning problem Elijah Pelofske, Georg Hahn, and Hristo Djidjev
	A Golden Age for Computing Frontiers, a Dark Age for Computing Education? Christof Teuscher
	Scaling of Multi-Core Quantum Architectures: A Communications-Aware Structured Gap Analysis Santiago Rodrigo, Medina Bandic, Hans van Someren, Sergi Abadal, Eduard Alarcon, and Carmen G. Almudever

17:15-17:30

Break

17:30-18:15	Session EU Projects Chair: Masoumeh (Azin) Ebrahimi and Poona Bahrebar
	EVOLVE: HPC and Cloud Enhanced Testbed for Extracting Value from Large-scale Diverse Data Antony Chazapis, Jean-Thomas Acquaviva, Angelos Bilas, Georgios Gardikis, Christos Kozanitis, Stelios Louloudakis, Huy-Nam Nguyen, Christian Pinto, Arno Scharl, and Dimitrios Soudris
	Evolving 5G: ANIARA, an Edge-Cloud perspective Ian Marsh, Nicolae Paladi, Henrik Abrahamsson, Jonas Gustafsson, Johan Sjöberg, Andreas Johnsson, Pontus Sköldström, Jim Dowling, Paolo Monti, Melina Vruna, and Mohsen Amiribesheli
	The Italian research on HPC key technologies across EuroHPC Marco Aldinucci, Giovanni Agosta, Antonio Andreini, Claudio A. Ardagna, Andrea Bartolini, Alessandro Cilardo, Biagio Cosenza, Marco Danelutto, Roberto Esposito, William Fornaciari, Roberto Giorgi, Davide Lengani, Raffaele Montella, Mauro Olivieri, Sergio Saponara, Daniele Simoni, and Massimo Torquati
	Architecting More Than Moore – Wireless Plasticity for Massive Heterogeneous Computer Architectures (WiPLASH) Joshua Klein, Marina Zapater, Alexandre Levisse, Giovanni Ansaloni, David Atienza, Davide Rossi, Francesco Conti, Martino Dazzi, Kumudu Geethan Karunaratne, Irem Boybat, Abu Sebastian, Elana Pereira de Santana, Peter Haring Bolívar, Mohamed Saeed, Renato Negra, Zhenxing Wang, Kun-Ta Wang, Max Lemme, Akshay Jain, Robert Guirado, Hamidreza Taghvaee, and Sergi Abadal
	cREAtIve: Reconfigurable Embedded Artificial Intelligence Poona Bahrebar, Leon Denis, Maxim Bonnaerens, Kristof Coddens, Joni Dambre, Wouter Favoreel, Illia Khvastunov, Adrian Munteanu, Hung Nguyen-Duc, Stefan Schulte, Dirk Stroobandt, Ramses Valvekens, Nick Van den Broeck, and Geert Verbruggen
	When Wearable Technology Meets Computing in Future Networks: A Road Ahead Aleksandr Ometov, Nadezhda Chukhno, Olga Chukhno, Jari Nurmi, and Elena Simona Lohan

18:15-18:30

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18:30-19:15	Session Big Data [Special Session #3] Chair: Sumit Purohit
	Scalable Topological Data Analysis for Life Science Applications Ananth Kalyanaraman
	Graph Analytics in the Exascale Era Mahantesh Halappanavar
	Interactive Data Science at Scale David Bader
	AvesTerra: A framework for global-scale knowledge representation and analytic interoperability J. Smart
	Parallel Graph Algorithms by Block: From I/O to Algorithms Ümit Çatalyürek

19:15-19:45	Award Ceremony and Closing