This project supports student travel to IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC) to be held in San Diego, CA on Nov 4-6, 2012. IISWC is dedicated to the understanding and characterization of workloads that run on all types of computing systems. New applications and programming paradigms continue to emerge as the diversity and performance of computers increase. On the one hand, computing workloads evolve and change with advances in microarchitecture, compilers, programming languages, and networking/communication technologies. This symposium, sponsored by IEEE Computer Society and the Technical Committee on Computer Architecture, will focus on characterizing and understanding modern computer applications commercial and scientific computing.
IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC) 2012 Report on Student Travel Grant Lizy John, Principal Investigator The IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC) is the premier international forum for the presentation of research results in characterization of computing system workloads. IISWC started out as Workshop on Workload Characterization (WWC) in 1998 and became a symposium in 2005. The symposium is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society and the Technical Committee on Computer Architecture. NSF awarded a travel grant of $5000 for supporting student travel to IISWC 2012 held during November 4-6, 2012 in San Diego, California. The travel grant was announced on the IISWC web site as soon as the NSF approval was received. Emails were sent to the IISWC mailing lists. We sent emails to prior attendees and other faculty from different Universities. During the conference, further announcements were made that travel grants are available. Student attendees were encouraged to apply. Eleven applications were received from Universities within US. All applicants were tentatively promised partial support. The applicants from San Diego were awarded less money because of their low travel costs. The decisions were made jointly by John Carter and Lizy John. The conference received at least 6 attendees who were non-presenting authors. That is a real benefit to those students because these students would not have attended otherwise. The awards were beneficial to 11 awardees could be classified as follows further illustrating the utility of the awards: Presenting/non presenting: 3 presenting, 8 non-presenting Author/non-author: 3 regular paper authors, 8 non-author Male/female: 8 male, 3 female Each student had to submit a 2-page summary of how they benefitted from attending the symposium in order to get the grant funds sent to them. All travel receipts were sent to the University of Texas. The University of Texas reimbursed the expenses up to the allocated amount according to the submitted receipts.
