Lambda the Ultimate

Call for Participation:

ALTA 2008

Architectures and Languages for Throughput Applications

Program:

1. Chuck Moore, AMD
Accelerated Computing in the Multi-core Era

2. Havard Bjerke, CERN
High Throughput Computing for CERN's Large
Hadron Collider

3. Michael Shebanow, NVIDIA
Title TBD

4. Doug Carmean, Intel
Title TBD

5. Weiwu Hu, Chinese Academy of Sciences
A Brief Introduction to Loongson Processors

6. Sun Chan, Simplight Electronics
Towards a sequential programming model
for a multi-threaded architecture

7. Gabriel Loh, Georgia Tech
The Cost of Uncore in Throughput-Oriented
Many-Core Processors

8. Paul Peng, Intel
SEE: A Scalable Execution Environment
for Heterogeneous Processing Architectures”

9. Wing-Yee Lo, Jiqiang Song, Daniel Pak-Kong Lun,
Wan-Chi Siu
SIMD Throughput Bottleneck Improvement
Using Vector Load/Store and Configurable
SIMD Support

10. Changhai Zhao, Xiaohua Shi, Haihua Yan, Lei Wang,
Beihang University
Exploiting Coarse-Grained Data Parallelism
in Seismic Processing

11. Oscar Hernandez, Lei Huang, Barbara Chapman,
University of Houston, Danesh Tafti, Pradeep
Gopalkrishnan, Virginia Tech
Experiences Tuning an OpenMP Application

Sunday, 22nd June, Beijing, China

This is a workshop held in conjunction with ISCA 2008. For registration, see:

http://isca2008.cs.princeton.edu/
http://www.regonline.com/Checkin.asp?EventId=165151
(For registration)

For the ALTA website, see:

http://www.sei.buaa.edu.cn/alta08/

Program Committee
Doug Carmean, Intel Corporation
Tom Conte North Carolina State University
Mike Houston AMD
Michael McCool RapidMind Inc.
Michael Garland Nvidia
Sun Chan Simplight Nanoelectronics
Xiaohua Shi Beihang University

Organizers
Anwar Ghuloum, Intel Corporation
Gansha Wu, Intel Corporation
Michael Liao, Intel Corporation
Josh Fryman, Intel Corporation

(Dunno how much control there is over this feature vs. it being super baked into Drupal.) It seems to sort by original-article-posting-date and then by are-there-any-new-posts. So I can see pages of nothing new and then suddenly posts with the red asterisks. Personally, dunno if this is universal, I'd like it to sort the other way around or something, so that I see all of the articles with new posts before articles with no new posts.

Benjamin C. Pierce's presentation slides (in PDF) for his talk on Types Considered Harmful. The talk starts out discussing some of the general advantages and disadvantages of static typing. But the aim of the talk centers on the problems of building a type checker for the Boomerang Programming Languague (an offshoot of harmony).

• Boomerang language design as an example of
  1. the need for very precise types
  2. some of the technical problems they raise
• Contracts as an attractive way of addressing some of these issues

Pierce's work is currently centered on creating a PL for Bidirectional Programming. A work in progress but it's interesting to see the thought process behind language design in real-time.