[ Abstracts due by October 26;
Full paper deadline extended: *** October 31, Samoan time *** ]
DAMP 2008: Workshop on
Declarative Aspects of Multicore Programming
San Francisco, CA, USA
(colocated with POPL 2008)
January 9, 2008
Parallelism is going mainstream. Many chip manufactures are turning to
multicore processor designs rather than scalar-oriented frequency
increases as a way to get performance in their desktop, enterprise,
and mobile processors. This endeavor is not likely to succeed long
term if mainstream applications cannot be parallelized to take
advantage of tens and eventually hundreds of hardware threads.
Multicore architectures will differ in significant ways from their
multisocket predecessors. For example, the communication to compute
bandwidth ratio is likely to be higher, which will positively impact
performance. More generally, multicore architectures introduce several
new dimensions of variability in both performance guarantees and
architectural contracts, such as the memory model, that may not
stabilize for several generations of product.
Programs written in functional or (constraint-)logic programming
languages, or even in other languages with a controlled use of side
effects, can greatly simplify parallel programming. Such declarative
programming allows for a deterministic semantics even when the
underlying implementation might be highly non-deterministic. In
addition to simplifying programming this can simplify debugging and
analyzing correctness.
DAMP is a one-day workshop seeking to explore ideas in programming
language design that will greatly simplify programming for multicore
architectures, and more generally for tightly coupled parallel
architectures. The emphasis will be on functional and
(constraint-)logic programming, but any programming language ideas
that aim to raise the level of abstraction are welcome. DAMP seeks to
gather together researchers in declarative approaches to parallel
programming and to foster cross fertilization across different
approaches.
Specific topics include, but are not limited to:
* suitability of functional and (constraint-)logic programming
languages to multicore applications;
* run-time issues such as garbage collection or thread scheduling;
* architectural features that may enhance the parallel performance of
declarative languages;
* type systems and analysis for accurately knowing or limiting
dependencies, aliasing, effects, and nonpure features;
* ways of specifying or hinting at parallelism;
* ways of specifying or hinting at data placement which abstract away
from any details of the machine;
* compiler techniques, automatic parallelization, automatic
granularity control;
* experiences of and challenges arising from making declarative
programming practical;
* technology for debugging parallel programs;
* design and implementation of domain-specific declarative languages
for multi-core;
Submission:
Submitted papers papers should not exceed 15 pages in LLNCS
format. Submission is electronic via:
http://www.easychair.org/DAMP2008/
Important dates:
Abstract submission: Oct 26
Paper submission: Oct 31, Samoan time (*extended*)
Notification to authors: Nov 30
Camera ready: Dec 14
Program Chair:
Manuel Hermenegildo
Technical University of Madrid / IMDEA-Software -- herme_at_fi.upm.es
University of New Mexico -- herme_at_unm.edu
Program Committee:
Koen De Bosschere (U. of Gent, Belgium)
Manuel Carro (Tech. U. of Madrid, Spain)
Manuel Chakravarty (U. of New S. Wales, Australia)
Clemens Grelck (U. of Luebeck, Germany)
Dan Grossman (U. of Washington, USA)
Suresh Jagannathan (Purdue U., USA)
Pedro Lopez-Garcia (Tech. U. of Madrid, Spain)
Lee Naish (Melbourne University, Australia)
Leaf Petersen (Intel Corporation, USA)
Enrico Pontelli (New Mexico State U., USA)
John Reppy (U. of Chicago, USA)
Vitor Santos-Costa (U. of Porto, Portugal)
General Chairs:
Leaf Petersen
Neal Glew
Intel Corporation
Santa Clara, CA, USA
leaf.petersen_at_intel.com
neal.glew_at_intel.com
URL:
http://www.cliplab.org/Conferences/DAMP08
Past DAMPs:
http://glew.org/damp2006
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~damp
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