IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS)

IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS)
Name	IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software
Acronym	ISPASS
Discipline	Computer architecture; Computer systems; Software performance
Formed	1993
Frequency	Annual
Publisher	IEEE
Country	International

IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS) The IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS) is an annual technical conference focusing on empirical and analytic studies of performance for computing systems and software. It attracts researchers from institutions such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University and industrial labs including Intel Corporation, IBM, Microsoft, Google, and AMD. The symposium often coincides with related meetings like International Symposium on Computer Architecture, International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, International Conference on Parallel Processing, USENIX Annual Technical Conference, and ACM SIGMETRICS.

History

ISPASS originated in the early 1990s with contributors from University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Bell Labs, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, and Los Alamos National Laboratory. Early organizers included researchers affiliated with Princeton University, University of Cambridge, ETH Zurich, University of Toronto, and University of Washington. Over time ISPASS has documented advances linked to projects and initiatives at DARPA, National Science Foundation, European Research Council, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Sandia National Laboratories. The symposium’s program committees have involved members from Facebook, Amazon Web Services, NVIDIA, ARM Holdings, and Broadcom. Key historical milestones paralleled developments reported at International Conference on Supercomputing, SC Conference, Hot Chips, Microarchitecture (MICRO), and International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture.

Scope and Topics

ISPASS covers topics intersecting interests at Intel Research, IBM Research, Microsoft Research, Google Research, Facebook AI Research, and Amazon Research. Typical themes connect to work from RISC-V Foundation, OpenPOWER Foundation, ACM SIGPLAN, ACM SIGARCH, IEEE Computer Society, and IEEE Transactions on Computers. Common subject areas include studies related to designs from ARM Ltd., evaluations of systems derived from x86 architecture, performance analyses inspired by CUDA, OpenCL, and experiments using prototypes at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Papers often reference benchmarks and suites developed at SPEC, PARSEC, TPC, Graph500, NAS Parallel Benchmarks, and datasets hosted by UCI Machine Learning Repository or ImageNet. Analytical methods reported often relate to models from Queuing theory, implementations influenced by POSIX, and measurement techniques comparable to practices in Apache Software Foundation, Linux Foundation, Kubernetes, and Docker, Inc..

Conference Organization and Sponsorship

Organization of ISPASS typically involves committees drawn from IEEE Computer Society, ACM, university departments at University of Michigan, Cornell University, University of Illinois, Columbia University, and industry partners such as Intel Corporation, IBM, Microsoft, Google, and NVIDIA. Sponsors and exhibitors have included Amazon Web Services, Facebook, ARM Ltd., AMD, Broadcom, Texas Instruments, Qualcomm, Red Hat, and Oracle Corporation. Workshops and tutorials co-located with ISPASS have been organized in collaboration with ACM SIGMETRICS, USENIX, ACM SIGOPS, IEEE HotEmNets, and SIGGRAPH affiliates. Steering committees have contained representatives from IEEE Technical Committee on Performance Evaluation and advisory members from National Institutes of Health grant programs and European consortia such as Horizon 2020.

Notable Papers and Awards

Notable papers presented at ISPASS have been cited alongside work from John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson, Mark D. Hill, Steve Keckler, and Onur Mutlu. Award-winning contributions have sometimes influenced systems reported at Google Bigtable, MapReduce, Hadoop, Spark (software), TensorFlow, and PyTorch. Best paper and test-of-time awards have honored research that impacted architectures from Intel Xeon, NVIDIA Tesla, AMD EPYC, and proposals from RISC-V projects. Recipients have included researchers affiliated with MIT Lincoln Laboratory, SRI International, Bell Labs, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, and Microsoft Research Redmond. The symposium’s awardees often appear in citation lists alongside publications from Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems, IEEE Micro, Communications of the ACM, and ACM Computing Surveys.

Venue and Frequency

ISPASS is held annually at venues across North America, Europe, and Asia, with recent sites including cities such as San Jose, California, Boston, Massachusetts, Seattle, Washington, Edinburgh, Zurich, Beijing, Tokyo, and Barcelona. Host institutions have included University of California, San Diego, University of Texas at Austin, University College London, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, and Tsinghua University. Conference logistics often align with regional chapters of IEEE Computer Society, local organizing committees connected to ACM SIGARCH chapters, and nearby research labs such as Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Impact and Community Reception

ISPASS is regarded by communities associated with ACM SIGARCH, IEEE Computer Society, USENIX, ACM SIGPLAN, and ACM SIGMETRICS as a focused venue for rigorous performance evaluation. The symposium’s proceedings are indexed alongside conferences such as ISCA, MICRO, ASPLOS, HPCA, and SOSP, and draw citations from authors affiliated with Princeton University, Harvard University, Yale University, University of Oxford, and Imperial College London. Industrial impact is visible in engineering teams at Intel Corporation, NVIDIA, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services adopting methods first reported at ISPASS for profiling, simulation, and benchmarking. The community reception is reflected in collaborations with standards bodies like RISC-V Foundation, repositories such as GitHub, and consortia like Open Compute Project.

Category:Computer performance evaluation conferences