************************************************************************************** Call for Contributions 10th International Workshop on Analysis Tools and Methodologies for Embedded and Real-time Systems https://www.ecrts.org/waters/ co-located with the conference ECRTS 2019 9th July 2019 Stuttgart, Germany Submission Deadline: 16 April 2019 ************************************************************************************** WATERS'19 is a satellite workshop of ECRTS'19. The goal of the International Workshop on Analysis Tools and Methodologies for Embedded and Real-time Systems (WATERS) is to create a common ground and a community to share methodologies, software tools, best practices, data sets, application models, benchmarks and any other way to improve comparability of results in the current practices of research in real-time and embedded systems. Focus of this year: This year, WATERS will focus on "Modeling and Performance Analysis of High-performance Computing Platforms". This topic is gaining importance in the real-time community as the integration trend and increased required computing power is currently driving the adoption of common embedded consumer devices into the safety-critical domain. These platforms include heterogeneous Multi-Processor Systems-on-Chip (MPSoCs) integrating general-purpose microprocessors and accelerators such as GPUs, previously restricted to the high-performance computing domain. Multiple hardware features including micro-architecture choices, shared resources, inter- connects, and memory hierarchy are therefore becoming a dominant performance factor that tremendously challenges established methodologies and tools in the real-time systems community. Therefore, a proper understanding, modeling and benchmarking of the important HW/SW features that influence performance in high-performance computing platforms is currently required. The goal of this year's edition at WATERS is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry working in the fields of real-time systems, design automation and HW/SW co-design in order to discuss current and emerging methodologies for modeling and performance analysis of high-performance heterogeneous platforms. WATERS Industrial Challenge 2019: -------------------------------- The topic of this year will be supported by an industrial challenge proposed jointly by Robert Bosch Gmbh and the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. The industrial challenge addresses the design and integration of recent automotive systems where expressive performance models capturing the heterogeneity of the hardware-software system are needed. The WATERS industrial challenge addresses one example in this context, where the processing power offered by GPUs and their capability to execute parallel workloads is exploited to execute and accelerate applications related to advanced driver assistance systems. The challenge description contains the following information: - A primer on NVIDIA TX2 platform with focus on CPU–GPU interactions, scheduling, memory model, and offloading mechanisms as basis for performance modeling in Amalthea - A brief description of the challenge questions - A description of the considered application - A description of utilized Amalthea performance modeling approaches suitable for the description of the software and hardware parts including their interaction for the given challenge. A detailed description of the challenge can be founded on the following link: https://www.ecrts.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=124&sid=9eb46a4f9a4417124aa63af90b7ce95f An interactive discussion with the authors of the challenge is also possible and highly encouraged using the discussion forum platform. Submission Format: ------------------ we welcome to WATERS'19 two types of contributions: - Solutions to the industrial challenge: authors of accepted submissions will have the opportunity to give a short talk during that session and present their solution to the audience during the interactive demo session. - Submissions for a talk at WATERS 2019 are welcome, position papers and problem statements elaborating challenges in particular in relation with this year's topic "Modeling and Performance Analysis of High-performance Computing Platforms" are also welcome. A short abstract (min 1 page - max 6 pages) IEEE conference format is to be submitted by the deadline. For accepted solutions to the industrial challenge, a submission up to 6 pages of the final version of the full solution will be required. Submission Link : https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=waters2019 Important Dates: ---------------- Submission Deadline: April 16, 2019 Acceptance Notifications: May 14, 2019 Camera-ready Papers: May 29, 2019 Workshop Day: July 09, 2019 Workshop Chairs: ---------------- Claire Pagetti, ONERA / IRIT-ENSEEIHT, France Selma Saidi, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Program Committee: ------------------ Marko Bertogna, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Roberto Cavicchili, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Benoit De Dinechin, Kalray, France Arne Hamann, Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany Rafik Henia, THALES, France Falk Wurst, Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany Dirk Ziegenbein, Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany