Welcome to the proceedings of the 3rd Power-Aware Computer Systems (PACS 2003) Workshop held in conjunction with the 36th Annual International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-36). The increase in power and - ergy dissipation in computer systems has begun to limit performance and has also resulted in higher cost and lower reliability. The increase also implies - ducedbatterylifeinportablesystems.Becauseofthemagnitudeoftheproblem, alllevelsofcomputersystems, includingcircuits, architectures, andsoftware, are being employed to address power and energy issues. PACS 2003 was the third...

WelcometotheproceedingsofthePower-AwareComputerSystems(PACS2002) workshopheld in conjunction with the 8th InternationalSymposium on High PerformanceComputerArchitecture(HPCA-8). Improvementsincomputers- temperformancehavebeenaccompaniedbyanalarmingincreaseinpowerand energydissipation, leading tohigher costandlowerreliabilityinallcomputer systemsmarketsegments. Thehigherpower/energydissipationhasalsosign- icantlyreducedbatterylife inportablesystems. Whilecircuit-leveltechniques continuetoreducepowerandenergy, alllevelsofcomputersystemsarebeing usedtoaddresspowerandenergyissues....

This text constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Communication, Architecture, and Applications for Network-Based Parallel Computing, CANPC 2000, held in Tolouse, France in January 2000. The 12 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in sections on program development and execution support, network router architecture, system support for communication abstractions, and network software and interface architecture.

This book provides readers with an overview of the architectures, programming frameworks, and hardware accelerators for typical cloud computing applications in data centers.