[X10-innovation] X10 Workshop at PLDI'11 in San Jose

[Michael H. <hi...@us...>]

We are happy to announce that there will be a 1-day workshop focusing on
X10 on Saturday, June 4, collocated with PLDI'11.   We are in the process
of getting ACM SIGPLAN sponsorship, but that is not yet closed.   Since the
submission deadline (Mon, Feb 7)  is fast approaching, we wanted to give
everyone a heads up on the workshop.

Below is the draft CFP.   The website should be active soon.

                The X10 Workshop (X10'11)
                        collocated with PLDI'11

                     San Jose Convention Center
                        San Jose, California
                       Saturday, June 4, 2011


The concurrency and scale-out era is upon us. Application programmers
need to confront the architectural challenge of multiples cores and
accelerators, clusters and supercomputers. A central need is the
development of a usable programming model that can address these
challenges -- deal with thousands of cores and peta-bytes of data.

The open-source X10 programming language (http://x10-lang.org) is
designed to address these twin challenges of productivity and
performance.  It is organized around four basic principles of
asynchrony, locality, atomicity and order, developed on a type-safe,
class-based, object-oriented foundation. This foundation is robust
enough to support fine-grained concurrency, Cilk-style fork-join
programming, GPU programming, SPMD computations, phased computations,
active messaging, MPI-style communicators, cluster programming. X10
implementations are available on Power and x86 clusters, on Linux,
AIX, MacOS, Cygwin and Windows.

The X10 Workshop is intended as a forum for X10 programmers,
developers, researchers and educators. The program may include
presentation of invited and selected papers, panels and a late evening
X10 hackathon with programming challenges and prizes.

Original papers are invited on all aspects of X10, including theory,
design, implementation, practice, curriculum development and
experience, applications and tools. Accepted authors will have the
option of having their paper in the proceedings.


Topics of interest include:
  * Curriculum development using X10 and experience
  * Applications and experience, X10 programming pearls
  * High-level frameworks and libraries: map reduce, parallel matrix
    and graph libraries, global load balancing frameworks
  * Performance analysis, comparison between performance of X10
    application in managed environment vs native environment
  * Performance comparison between Hadoop and X10 implementations of
    Map Reduce programs

  * Foundations: weak-memory models, models of imperative concurrency,
    reasoning techniques for dynamic concurrency
  * Extensions: fault-tolerance, dynamic places, hierarchical places
  * Type systems for concurrency and alias management
  * Deterministic computation, Phased computations -- Clock-based
    concurrency, Stream-based computation
  * Static analyses for atomicity violations, race conditions,
    deadlock-freedom.

  * Compilation techniques: code generation, compilation for
    work-stealing, concurrency and communication optimizations,
    compilation for scale
  * Runtime systems, Interoperability with Java, MPI
  * Design of JVM extensions for X10, Multi-VM implementations of X10.
  * Distributed GC

  * Refactoring tools, including concurrency refactoring
  * Performance analysis and monitoring tools
  * Testing, Bug-detection and program understanding tools
  * Debugging frameworks, including large-scale debugging, differential
    debugging.


IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline: Mon, Feb 7, 2011
Author Notification: Mon, March 18, 2011
Camera ready deadline: Wed, April 6, 2011
Workshop: Sat, June 4, 2011


SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Submissions may not exceed 10 pages formatted according to the ACM
proceedings format. These 10 pages include everything (i.e., it is the
total length of the paper). Templates for ACM format are available for
Word Perfect, Microsoft Word, and LaTeX at
http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigplan/authorInformation.htm (use the 9 pt
template). Submissions should be in PDF and printable on US Letter and
A4 sized paper.

Papers must describe unpublished work that is not currently submitted
for publication elsewhere, including journals and proceedings of
refereed conferences and workshops (c.f.,
http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigplan/republicationpolicy.htm). Authors of
accepted papers will have the option of having their paper published
in the proceedings.  Such authors will be required to sign an ACM
copyright release, pending ACM sponsorship

Submissions will be reviewed by the program committee and designated
reviewers, and judged on scientific merit, innovation, readability,
and relevance. Papers previously published or already being reviewed
by another conference are not eligible; if a closely related paper has
been submitted to a journal, the authors must notify the program chair
(see the SIGPLAN republication policy).


ORGANIZING/PROGRAM COMMITTEE
 * Steve Blackburn, Australian National University
 * Michael Hind, IBM Research
 * Doug Lea, State University of New York, Oswego
 * Kathryn Mckinley, University of Texas at Austin
 * Jens Palsberg, University of California, Los Angeles
 * Vijay Saraswat, IBM Research, (chair)
 * Vivek Sarkar, Rice University

TRAVEL GRANTS (pending SIGPLAN sponsorship)
The SIGPLAN Profession Activities Committee (PAC) provides competitive
awards for student author travel to attend X10'11.  These travel
awards are funded by SIGPLAN.  Awards are also available to child care
or companion travel for SIGPLAN members.  Further details, including
the application form can be found at http://www.sigplan.org/PAC.htm

_____________________________________________________________
Michael Hind, Senior Manager, Programming Technologies Department
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
http://www.research.ibm.com/people/h/hind
914 784-7589
My internal blog:  http://blogs.tap.ibm.com/weblogs/hindsight