IFIP Working Group 10.5 Minutes Meeting

San Francisco, Moscone center, DAC conference,
thursday July 31 2009, 6:00 PM
 
Attendees : Donatella sciuto, Ricardo Reis,, David Atienza, Jose L. Ayala, Ahmed Jerraya, P.A.Subrahmanyam (Subra), Flavio Wagner, Michel Robert.

- IFIP TC10

A Technical Committee TC-10 (Computer Systems Technology) meeting has been organized by Bernhard Eschermann during the DSN conference in Estoril (Portugal ) on July 2. Ricardo has represented the WG. One point to mention is that TC 10 is looking on inputs/ideas on new areas. In order to keep TC 10's focus up to date with technical developments, TC 10's involvement in new technical areas has to be continuously evaluated. The following areas were discussed as worthwhile to follow up (each area was allocated to a WG that is responsible to follow it up and potentially create a SIG in this area if there is sufficient interest):
- Wearable computing: Allocated to WG 10.2.
- Cloud computing: Allocated to WG 10.4 (the question was raised which TC takes care of the software concepts for service-oriented architectures).
- Green computing (energy efficiency of computing): Allocated to WG 10.5.

The WGs are invited to discuss the respective topics at their coming WG meetings and report back for the next TC meeting.

Suggestions of WG 10.5 members interested are welcome. We propose to organize a green computing topic during the VLSI-SoC edition of Madrid next year. This will be included in the call for papers and proposals.

The green computing topic will be also discussed in our next meeting in Brazil. A.Subrahmanyam (Subra) could be interested to coordinate these discussions.

- VLSI-SoC Books (Springer)

VLSI-SoC08 Rhodes Book will be ready soon. Our collegue, Prof. Dimitrios Soudris, after some health problems, but feel better now.

- Report on VLSI-SoC 2009 (October 12-15) and Edutech 2009, in Florianopolis ( Brazil ) by Ricardo Reis

The final program will be ready soon.

The next edition of EduTech will be held in Florianopolis, together with VLSI-SoC, in 2009 (October 15, 16). General Chair will be Ricardo Reis, and Program Chair will be Achim Rettberg (Oldenburg). The number of submission is low.

- Report on VLSI-SoC 2010, by David Atienza (28-30 September)

David presented an update of the organization (see attached file) taking into account our last discussion in Nice. The overall budget (Conference + Publications) is 50k Euros. The Total expected registration is 100. Registration fees for students will be as lower as possible. The budget should include the IFIP fees (10 euros/person/day). IFIP finances a limited number of travel grants for Ph.D. students, who cannot be fully supported by their institutions. This rule gives preference to students being enrolled in Africa, Latin America, Eastern Europe including Russia, and Asia (except Israel, Japan, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan). The percentage covered by a grant is typically at least 50 percent of the total cost.

Meeting of steering committee will be on 29^th. WCC-2010 is just one week after. There is no collisions with Embedded Systems Week.

- Proposals for other future VLSI-SoC editions

- 2011 in China : Pr. Chi-Ying Tsui, from the Hong-Kong University of Science and Technology will present the organization during the next WG meeting in Brazil.

- 2012 in California (Santa Cruz) : tentative; presentation of the project, discussion and decision during our next meting.

- Proposal for 2013: Istanbul (Ricardo)

- New members

- Our new member Jose L. Ayala will be included in our WG mailing list (flavio).

The following candidates will be invited for a presentation during ou next meeting :

- Pr Tsui (Chi Ying) from Hong Kong, working on VLSI design. He offers to organize VLSI-SoC in 2011 in Hong Kong , and is very active in the research fields of low power circuit and system design. He was the Chair of Low Power Design sub-committee of ACM-SIGDA Technical Committee in 2006 and currently a member of the sub-committee. He is also serving on the editorial board of Integration, the international VLSI Journal. He helped in organizing the ASP-DAC conference and served on the technical programming committee in many other international conferences and symposium. Contact for the WG: Salvador.

- Matthew Guthaus is and Assistant Professor at Computer Engineering
of University of California Santa Cruz, California. He is very active and he is willing to propose the organization of VLSI-SoC2012 in California. Contact for the WG: Ricardo.

- Next WG meetings

- VLSI-SoC 2009 in Florianopolis, Brazil, on October 12 (Monday, first day of the conference).

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