Technical Program

Note: All the times listed below are in JST

Wednesday, August 30, 2023

09:00 Opening and Keynote
10:30 Break
11:00 RTCSA-1: Best Paper Candidates NVMSA-1: Solid-State Drive
12:30 Lunch Break
13:30 RTCSA-2: Real-Time Systems 1 (From 14:00) NVMSA-2: Security and Isolation
15:00 Break
15:30 RTCSA-3: Embedded Systems 1 (15:20 ~ 17:00) NVMSA-3: Invited Talk
17:30 Welcome Reception & Poster Presentation

Thursday, August 31, 2023

09:30 NVMSA Keynote
10:30 Break
11:00 RTCSA-4: IoT, CPS, and Emerging Applications 1 NVMSA-4: Machine Learning in Memory
12:30 Lunch Break
14:00 Sponsor Talk
15:00 Break
15:30 RTCSA-5A: Real-Time Systems 2 RTCSA-5B: Embedded Systems 2
Banquet

Friday, September 1, 2023

09:00 RTCSA-6: Real-Time Systems 3 (From 9:30) NVMSA-6: Tool and System Software
10:30 Break
11:00 RTCSA-7A: IoT, CPS, and Emerging Applications 2 RTCSA-7B: Short Presentations
Closing



NVMSA Keynote (August 31, 9:30 ~ 10:30)

Title: New Horizon in Persistent Memory Research

Speaker: Prof. Yan Solihin (University of Central Florida)

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Session Chair: Takatsugu Ono (Kyushu University)

Abstract:
PM enables a new data abstraction where programmers keep persistent data in memory-only data structures instead of files or file-backed memory maps. We refer to this abstraction as Persistent Memory Objects (PMO). While PMO allows fine-grain access at low latency to persistent data, it also presents several challenges. Among these challenges are: (1) new abstraction is needed to define its use, access, and sharing, (2) security vulnerabilities that arise from keeping them in memory instead of files, and (3) how it affects memory encryption and integrity verification. In this talk, I will first discuss challenges facing the PMO model and what approaches to solve them are possible. Furthermore, non-volatile or persistent memory (PM)’s integration into computer systems is undergoing changes. With Intel discontinuing Octane DC persistent memory, several alternatives have emerged, including soft persistent memory (battery/UPS-backed DRAM providing persistency) and memory-semantic SSD. I will discuss my perspectives on how these emerging alternatives affect research in persistent memory.

Biography:
Yan Solihin is the Director of Cybersecurity and Privacy Cluster, and Charles N. Millican* Professor of Computer Science at University of Central Florida. He obtained B.S. in Computer Science from Institut Teknologi Bandung in 1995, B.S. in Mathematics from Universitas Terbuka in 1995, M.A.Sc in computer engineering from Nanyang Technological University in 1997, and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 2002. He was a pioneer in cache sharing fairness and Quality of Service (QoS), efficient counter mode memory encryption, and Bonsai Merkle Tree, which have significantly influenced Intel Cache Allocation Technology and Secure Guard eXtension (SGX)'s Memory Encryption Engine (MEE). In recognition, he received IEEE Fellow “for contributions to shared cache hierarchies and secure processors” in 2017. He is listed in the HPCA Hall of Fame, ISCA Hall of Fame, and Computer Architecture Total (CAT) Hall of Fame. Prior to joining UCF, from 2002-2018, he was a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NCSU. From 2015-2018, he was a Program Director at the Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS) at the National Science Foundation. His responsibilities include managing the Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC), Computer Systems Research (CSR), and Scalability and Parallelism in the eXtreme (SPX). He co-founded the NSF/Intel Partnership on Foundational Microarchitecture Research (FoMR) program. He has published 100+ papers, authored 120+ patent assets, delivered 80+ invited talks/seminars, including several keynotes and multi-day tutorials. His research received HPCA Test of Time Award (2023), MICRO Best Paper Runner-up Award (2017), IEEE Micro Top Picks (2011), and several Best Paper nominations/finalists (ISPASS 2013, IPDPS 2012, and HPCA 2005). He released several software packages to the public: ACAPP - a cache performance model toolset, HeapServer - a secure heap management library, Scaltool - parallel program scalability pinpointer, and Fodex - a forensic document examination toolset. His research has been covered by the IEEE Spectrum, US News, PC World, HPCWire, Slashdot, and others. He has written two graduate textbooks.

NVMSA-1: Solid-State Drive (August 30, 11:00 ~ 12:30)

Session Chair: Daichi Fujiki (Keio University)
  1. Read Disturb and Reliability: The Complete Story for 3D CT NAND Flash (Best Paper Award)
    Tianyu Ren, Qiao Li, Min Ye and Chun Jason Xue
  2. Retention Leveling: Leverage Retention Refreshing and Wear Leveling Techniques to Enhance Flash Reliability with the Awareness of Temperature
    Wei-Chen Wang, Chien-Chung Ho, Yuan-Hao Chang, Tei-Wei Kuo and Yu-Ming Chang
  3. Efficient Read Disturb Management Schemes in Resource-constrained Flash Memory Controller
    Ikjoon Son and Jin-Soo Kim

NVMSA-2: Security and Isolation (August 30, 14:00 ~ 15:00)

Session Chair: Takaaki Fukai (AIST)
  1. FSD: File-related Secure Deletion to Prolong the Lifetime of Solid-State Drives
    Shih-Chun Chou, Yi-Shen Chen, Ping-Xiang Chen, Yuan-Hao Chang, Ming-Chang Yang, Tei-Wei Kuo, Yu-Fang Chen and Yu-Ming Chang
  2. Achieving Performance Isolation in Docker Environments with ZNS SSDs
    Yejin Han, Myunghoon Oh, Seehwan Yoo, Jaedong Lee, Bryan S. Kim and Jongmoo Choi

NVMSA-3: Invited Talk (August 30, 15:20 ~ 17:00)

Session Chair: Ryuichi Sakamoto (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
  1. (15:20 ~ 15:50) TBA
  2. (15:50 ~ 16:30) Compute Express Link(CXL), the next generation interconnect -- Overview and the status of Linux --
    Yasunori Gotou (Fujitsu)
  3. (16:30 ~ 17:00) Computation-in-Memory Architecture for AI Accelerator
    Ken Takeuchi (The University of Tokyo)

Poster Presentation (August 30, 17:30 ~ 19:30)

NVMSA-4: Machine Learning in Memory (August 31, 11:00 ~ 12:30)

Session Chair: Shuo-Han Chen (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University)
  1. Exploring Bit-Level Sparsity for Partial Sum Quantization in Computing-In-Memory Accelerator
    Jinyu Bai, Sifan Sun and Wang Kang
  2. ES-MPQ: Evolutionary Search enabled Mixed Precision Quantization Framework for Computing-In-Memory
    Sifan Sun, Jinming Ge, Jinyu Bai and Wang Kang
  3. An In-Memory-Computing STT-MRAM Macro with Analog ReLU and Pooling Layers for Ultra-High Efficient Neural Network
    Linjun Jiang, Sifan Sun, Jinming Ge, He Zhang and Wang Kang

NVMSA-6: Tool and System Software (September 1, 9:30 ~ 10:30)

Session Chair: Yuan He (Keio University)
  1. Rapid NVM Simulation and Analysis on Single Bit Granularity Featuring Gem5 and NVMain
    Nils Hölscher, Minh Duy Truong, Christian Hakert, Tristan Seidl, Kuan-Hsun Chen and Jian-Jia Chen
  2. Optimizing the Incremental Update Mechanism of Mobile Systems by Inlaying File Indexes on Flash
    Ruiqing Lei, Xianzhang Chen, Duo Liu, Chunlin Song, Yujuan Tan and Ao Ren