Paper Rejection

So the first submission of the paper for the spock project has almost officially been rejected. The reviewers heavily lean towards rejection in their scores and I can't say I blame them. I would have made quite a few changes to the paper before sending the final version for publication if it had been accepted. However, I believe this rejection is an important experience for the (former) students involed in the process.

First, it is encouraging that the reviewer were very constructive in their feedback. Almost universally they said the idea has novelty and potentially has merit, though we haven't proven that merit with the paper in its current form. I pretty much agree with this assessment entirely. The next course of action will be to switch the paper from just presenting an idea to including a case-study of applying our novel cache performance analysis technique to a series of cache designs and replacement policies. Eric Storm has agreed to head up this renewed effort, which is good because he hasn't graduated and moved on to other things just yet.