**** Call For Presentations **** Update: The DaSi 2013 submission deadline has been extended to April 7th (from March 29th). The 2nd Dark Silicon Workshop Tel-Aviv, Israel. June 24th, 2013. Held in conjunction with ISCA 2013 The second Dark Silicon Workshop provides a unique forum for discussing the challenges and opportunities that Dark Silicon presents. There are many research questions left to answer before new architectures built specifically to mitigate or exploit dark silicon become the default platforms for general purpose computing. To scale alongside dark silicon, architects will need to design and verify specialized processors in increasing numbers. Making heterogeneous platforms easy to program will require us to reconsider traditional language and OS abstractions. Traditionally, many of the performance gains from specialized hardware stem from customized memory designs, and it is not yet clear how best to integrate multiple such memory designs together into a single architecture. These and other challenges will face researchers as they shed light on silicon’s dark future. The organizing committee is soliciting presentations on any topic related to Dark Silicon, including (but not limited to): - Architectural approaches to managing and exploiting dark silicon - Power management techniques - Energy/power-efficient circuit designs - Energy/power-efficient memory systems - Scalable design and synthesis techniques for customizable and specialized cores - Novel applications for idle chip area The goal is to facilitate the exchange of the latest ideas, insights, and knowledge that can propel future progress. In lieu of printed proceedings, we will post the slides and extended abstracts of the presentations online. Presentation of new work at the workshop does not preclude future publication. Workshop submissions should be in the form of a 2-page presentation abstract. Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of impact, novelty, and general interest. The submission deadline is April 7th, 2013, with notification of acceptance by May 10, 2013. Further details on abstract submission, technical program, tutorials, travel, social program, and travel grants will be provided at the workshop website: http://DarkSilicon.ucsd.edu Organizing Committee: Babak Falsafi, EPFL Jack Sampson, UCSD Steven Swanson, UCSD Michael Taylor, UCSD Program Committee: Andrew Chien, University of Chicago Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, University of Washington Babak Falsafi, EPFL Nikos Hardavellas, Northwestern University James Hoe, Carnegie Mellon Ravi Iyer, Intel Martha Kim, Columbia Per Ljung, Motorola Scott Mahlke, University of Michigan Milo Martin, University of Pennsylvania Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, The Pennsylvania State University Ronny Ronen, Intel Jack Sampson, UCSD Karthikeyan Sankaralingam, University of Wisconsin Steven Swanson, UCSD Michael Taylor, UCSD Thomas Wenisch, University of Michigan