Preliminary Program

8:45-9:00am	Welcome
9:00-10:00am	Keynote 1: TBD
10:00-10:30am	Coffee Break
10:30-12:00pm	Panel Discussion: Demystifying Grad School
12:00-01:30pm	Lunch + Round-table Mentoring
1:30-2:30pm	Keynote 2: TBD
2:30-3:00pm	Lightning Talks
3:00-3:30pm	Coffee Break
3:30-5:00pm	Poster Session
5:00pm	Closing Remarks

SUBMIT

Eligibility

Applicants must be either (a) research-active undergraduate students aiming for graduate school, or (b) graduate students (Masters and/or PhD) in computer architecture and related fields who have completed less than 3 years of graduate school at the time of the workshop. A note from the student’s research advisor attesting this is required as part of the submission.

Eligible students are invited to submit their early stage or on-going work to this workshop. Submitted work should not have been presented as part of a prior ACM/IEEE conference.

Note: This workshop is not a venue for publication and there will be no formal proceedings.

Topics of Interest

The workshop invites papers from all areas of computer architecture, broadly defined. Topics of interest include, but not limited to:

• Datacenter systems
• Hardware acceleration
• Memory hierarchy
• Virtualization
• Security
• Microarchitecture
• GPUs
• Parallel architectures
• Emerging technologies

Submission Guidelines

The goal of this workshop is to help students think about a problem/idea in an holistic manner and communicate your ideas to the wider community, so that we can provide some valuable early-stage feedback. To this end, we encourage you to cover the following aspects in your submission:

• Scope of problem/idea: Provide clear context for and scope of the problem(s) or idea(s) you intend to work on. This will likely form the basis of the introduction/background sections of your future work(s).
• Solution: Provide an overview of the design and implementation aspects of your solution(s) to the problem(s) described above. Given this is on-going work, focus more on providing breadth than depth. For example, beside describing the design of your idea, enlist the various system aspects which your proposed solutions will affect (e.g. does your proposed solution affect coherence protocols?) and that if you plan to discuss these effects in your future submission(s).
• Evaluation methodology: Discuss the evaluation methodology you plan to adopt to test the efficacy of your ideas. For example, the workloads that you plan to use, the tools you’ll employ (e.g., architectural simulator, real world experiments, FPGA prototypes), etc.
• Related work: This can be the traditional related work section. Please specify if you plan to quantitatively compare against some prior work.

Submission Details

• Submissions must be PDF files, in 2-column, single-spaced, 10pt format, at most 2 pages long, not including references.
• Submissions are double-blind. Please do not have any author identifying information in the paper submitted.
• Please have your research advisor send the workshop organizers an email with the following subject line “<Your name> meets YArch’24 eligibility requirements” to youngarchitectw@gmail.com.
• Submission site: https://yarch2025.hotcrp.com
• Registration deadline: January 10, 2025
• Submission deadline: January 17, 2025, 18:00pm EST

Declaring Conflicts

When registering a submission, all its co-authors must provide information about conflicts with the YArch'25 program committee members. You are conflicted with a member if:

1. you are currently employed at the same institution, have been previously employed at the same institution within the past two years, or are going to begin employment at the same institution;
2. you have a past or present association as thesis advisor or advisee (no time limit);
3. you have collaborated on a project, publication, grant proposal, or editorship within the past two years;
4. or, you have spouse or first-degree relative relations.

Funding FAQ

1. We aim to fund one person per paper (the presenter/first author).
2. Depending on available funding we may only cover partial costs.
3. We aim to fund the presenters from all accepted papers.