[HiPEAC-announce] REMINDER: 5th HiPEAC Industrial Workshop submission deadline

[Daniel Ortega (HP Labs)]

REMINDER: Submission deadline is 1 week from today.

We are also pleased to announce the Invited Talk: "Getting C++
threads right", by Hans Boehm.

Please visit the Workshop webpage for the complete information
regarding this event.

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                        CALL FOR PAPERS

                  5th HiPEAC Industrial Workshop
         Tools and Methodology for Parallel Programming

                        June 4th, 2008
                      HP Labs Barcelona
             http://www.hipeac.net/industry_workshop5

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Important Dates

- Submission deadline             April 25th , 2008

- Notification of acceptance      May 2nd , 2008

- Workshop                        June 4th , 2008

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Invited Talk:

"Getting C++ threads right", by Hans Boehm.

Abstract:

For many application domains, threads and locks, particularly in the
form of C or C++ with a threads library, remain the standard approach
for writing parallel programs. Somewhat surprisingly, there are a
number of often subtle, but generally fixable, industry-wide problems
associated with this approach. Problems span the spectrum from
system libraries through language implementations through the
underlying architectures. They get in the way both in that they
often make it difficult to write 100% reliable multithreaded
software, and in that they confuse even the basics of the programming
model, thus making it hard to teach. A surprising number of
"experts" do not understand the basic rules. These problems largely
carry over to transactional memory systems.

Since solutions to these problems generally require a coordinated
industry effort, we helped to persuade the C++ standards committee to
address them in the working paper for the next C++ standard. We
outline the problems and proposed solutions.

Speakers Bio:

Hans Boehm is the primary author of a widely used multithreaded
garbage collector library. He is leading an ongoing effort to extend
the C++ standard with clean semantics for threads, and particularly
shared variable accesses. He holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University,
has published a number of influential papers on garbage collection,
and a few on threads and synchronization. He is a past Chair of ACM
SIGPLAN, and of the POPL, ISMM and VEE research symposia. He was
awarded the 2003 PLDI most influential paper award, and the 2006
SIGPLAN Distinguished Service Award, and is an ACM Distinguished
Scientist. He works for HP Laboratories.
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