RAPIDO 2020: Workshop on Rapid Simulation and Performance Evaluation: Methods and Tools 2020 
Workshop of HiPEAC Conference
Bologna Polo Congressuale, Italy, January 21, 2020

(https://rapidoworkshop.github.io  https://www.hipeac.net/2020/bologna/#/schedule/sessions/7755/)

Goal of the Workshop 
The focus of the RAPIDO workshop is on methods and tools for rapid simulation and performance evaluation in embedded and high performance system design. Given continuous advances in chip technology, it is to be expected that future-generation systems on chip will integrate numerous units on a single die, including multiple (heterogeneous) processor cores, multiple levels of (shared/private) caches or memories, and dedicated accelerators, which will be glued together through a network on-chip (NoC). The design space is huge though and several design metrics should be considered as well for selecting the optimal system configuration. Despite several years of research, the early stage design phase still requires to be supported by innovative design methodologies and tools for simulation, exploration and performance evaluation. RAPIDO seeks for original research papers that face this challenge for embedded and high performance computing systems.
Topics of Interest include, but are not limited to
* Rapid simulation techniques targeted at novel architectures: Multi-cores, 3D-architectures, FPGA based heterogeneous Multi-cores/MPSoC, ...
* Variability and power/energy consumption in performance estimation and simulation techniques
* High-level abstraction modeling, e.g., Transactional Level Modeling, Analytical Modeling, Trace-Driven Simulation …
* Design space exploration for heterogeneous high-performance and embedded systems
* Dynamic binary translation for fast simulation and DSE
* Experience reports using existing simulators and tools, Benchmarking and simulator validation, Early stage prototype of innovative architectures

Submission Guidelines 
* All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. 
* Electronic paper submission requires a full paper, up to 6 double-column ACM format pages, including figures and references. Up to 2 extra-pages can be requested for free to the organizing committee. Please use the following template when preparing your manuscript: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates  
* The paper submission will be conducted using the EasyChair conference manager. Papers should be submitted in PDF format. You will find the submission site at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rapido2020  
* Accepted papers will be published in the ACM digital library.

Important dates
* Papers submission deadline: Nov. 10, 2019
* Papers notification to authors: Nov. 24, 2019
* Final version of accepted papers: Dec. 6, 2019

Organizing Committees
* Morteza Biglari-Abhari, University of Auckland
* Daniel Chillet, Université de Rennes 1
* Reda Nouacer, CEA, France
* Gianluca Palermo, Politecnico di Milano
* Daniel Gracia Pérez,     Research and Technology France