Dear All,

The HiPEAC2 network will hold its kickoff meeting in
Göteborg/Gothenburg, on the 30th and 31st of this month, immediately
following the 3rd HiPEAC conference and in the same location.

INRIA coordinates the "Compiler Platform Cluster", in sync with
Edinburgh who coordinates the compiler platform activities in HiPEAC1
until the end of the project (September 2008).

We would like to invite you to our meeting on
*** Thursday January 31st at 15:30 ***

Of course, you should attend the global kickoff meeting the day before,
to understand the new instruments and organization in HiPEAC2.

There are also highly relevant cluster meetings on the 30th and 31st for
which cross-cluster work is already planned, namely: the "Adaptive
Compilation" and the "Programming Models and Operating Systems"
clusters, both on Wednesday 30th, and the "Simulation and Modeling"
cluster just before ours.

Several action points have already been proposed, and as a continuation
of a HiPEAC1 activity, there is also ongoing work to be progressively
transfered to HiPEAC2. Yet the goal of the meeting is to open up to any
collaborative and platform development work of interest for the HiPEAC
community.

GCC is the selected compiler platform. Many HiPEAC members have been
conducting research and contributing to GCC in the past 3 years, but we
expect the impact of the network to increase in the context of HiPEAC2.

Some important points need to be discussed during the meeting.

- Cluster organization, including "proxy" person for the cluster (see
HiPEAC2 organization), engineer(s)/postdoc(s), calls to allocate the
funds (see HiPEAC2's decentralized funding scheme). If somebody is
already interested in sharing the coordination of the cluster, please
contact me as soon as possible (no need to work at INRIA for this, of
course).

- Platform tasks. This includes parallel programming support in sync
with HiPEAC1: the current proposal is to support transactional memory in
GCC. There are also multiple proposals for mutualized developments and
collaborative research; another mail will come next to list the current
topics.

- Interaction with the GCC community and legal issues. Of course, all
your developments within GCC should be free software. If you plan to
contribute, you should also sign a copyright transfer to the FSF (can a
lengthy process, depending of your organization).

I expect a lot of technical and organizational discussions on the nature
and details of the platform R&D tasks. Some of them may already start in
the abovementionned clusters (especially in the programming models, for
transactional memory support), but in case we need more time, the last
slot in the afternoon is free for further technical discussions.

I look forward to seeing you in Göteborg, and wish you a productive and
successful year!

Best regards,
Albert