Performance and power evaluation methodologies

• Analytical modeling
• Statistical approaches
• Tracing and profiling tools
• Simulation techniques
• Hardware (e.g., FPGA) accelerated simulation
• Hardware performance counter architectures
• Power/Temperature/Variability/Reliability models for computer systems
• Micro-benchmark based hardware analysis techniques

Performance and power analysis

• Metrics
• Bottleneck identification and analysis
• Visualization

Power/Performance analysis of commercial and experimental hardware

• General-purpose microprocessors
• Multi-threaded, multicore and many-core architectures
• Accelerators and graphics processing units
• Embedded and mobile systems
• Enterprise systems and data centers
• Supercomputers
• Computer networks

Power/Performance analysis of emerging workloads and software

• Software written in managed languages
• Virtualization and consolidation workloads
• Internet-sector workloads
• Embedded, multimedia, games, telepresence
• Bioinformatics, life sciences, security, biometrics
• Deep learning and convolutional neural networks

Application and system code tuning and optimization
Confirmations or refutations of important prior results