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PIR Meetings

Please see PirMeetings for agenda/presentations/notes for PIR meetings between IBM and Rice.

Workshop Information

May 27,28 2008
Wean Hall -- Directions
CMU
Seventh Floor, Room WEH 7220

Workshop Agenda First Draft

Time	Tuesday, May 27, 2008	Speaker	Slides
Noon-1:30	Lunch, introductions
	Introduction to IBM OCRs	Evelyn	Slides
Session 1	Update on Polyglot and X10	Nate
	Update on Polyglot 3		Slides
	X10 1.7 overview
Session 2	IR Design for X10	Jun/Dave/Raghavan/Vivek, Igor/Nate/Vijay	(left) (right) snapshots
	Soot + extensions for async, finish, atomic, clock
	WALA + ...
	Other thoughts
	Example analyses and transformations

Time	Wednesday, May 28, 2008	Speaker	Slides
8:00-8:30	Breakfast
Session 3	Compilation for Work-stealing for X10	(Rice/IBM)
	Compiling for finish/atomic/async
	Ideas for compiling clock/next
	Ideas for compiling when/synchronous variables
	Discussion of alternatives (bytecode transforms vs IR implementation)

| Session 4| Parallel, Depthfirst scheduling (PDFS) | Guy, Dan | Slides

	Basic ideas, data-structures, algorithms, results
	Overview of MLton	Dan	Slides
	Discussion of suite of benchmarks for fine-grained parallelism	All
	(e.g. outer product, parallel merge, array reductions, DFS, BFS)
Session 5	Current status of Fork Join libraries and JVM extensions	Doug
	FJ design, rationale, performance
	Algorithmic properties of FJ
	Recent JVM work
Session 6	XWS Update
	Design, results
	Combining FJ + XWS. PDFS?

ProposedSchedulingBenchmark

Hotel Information

Please make your reservations ASAP. Due to graduation/commencement activities of several universities in the area, rooms will fill up very fast in the coming days and weeks.

Hotel Information

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