DaCapo Research Group Winter Meeting Schedule 2008
Location: The University of Massachusetts Amherst, room 151 of the
Computer Science Building
Thursday, January 3
9am-12pm -- breakout sessions: DaCapo PIs and students only
(breakfast 9-9:30)
Lunch and Introductions -- 12pm-1:30pm
Session 1: Java and GC (1:30pm - 3:00pm)
The Moxie JVM Experience - Steve Blackburn,
Sergey Salishev, Mikhail Danilov, Oleg Mokhovikov, Anton Nashatyrev,
Peter Novodvorsky, Vadim Bogdanov, Xiao Feng Li, Dennis Ushakov (ANU
& Intel)
Dynamic Software Updates for Java: A VM-Centric
Approach - Suriya Subramanian, Michael Hicks, and Kathryn
McKinley (Texas and Maryland)
Immix Garbage Collection: Fast Collection, Space Efficiency,
and Mutator Locality - Steve Blackburn (ANU) and Kathryn
McKinley (Texas)
Coffee break - 3:00-3:30pm
Session 2: Performance Optimization, Code Generation and Analysis
(3:30pm - 5:15pm)
Managing Perturbation - Todd Mytkowicz, Amer
Diwan, Matthias Hauswirth, and Peter Sweeney (Colorado & IBM
Research)
Universal Code Generator Generation - Tim Richards,
Eliot Moss, and Chip Weems (UMass)
Talk
Towards a Coding Style for Writing Non-Blocking
Algorithms - Cliff Click (Azul)
Talk
Concurrent GC Leveraging Transactional Memory - Phil
McGachey (Purdue), Rick Hudson (Intel)
Talk
Panel discussion (5:15-6pm)
The Next DaCapo Benchmark Release - led by
Steve Blackburn
Dinner - 6:30pm -- 8:30pm (La Piazza Restaurant, Amherst)
Social activities - 8:30pm -- (Amherst Brewing / Moan & Dove)
Friday, January 4
Breakfast -- 9:00-10:00am
Session 3: Reliability and Debugging (10:00am - 12pm)
Melt: Memory Leak Tolerance for Java - Mike Bond
and Kathryn McKinley (Texas)
Plug: Detecting and Tolerating Memory Leaks in C/C++
- Gene Novark, Emery Berger and Ben Zorn (UMass and Microsoft
Research)
Tracking Bad Apples: Reporting the Origin of Null Pointer
Errors - Mike Bond, Nicholas Nethercote, S.W. Kent, Sam
Guyer, Kathryn McKinley (Texas, Tufts)
Java Extensions: transactions, distribution, and
reliability - Tony Hosking, Eliot Moss, Phil McGachey,
Acharya, Asjad Khan (Purdue and UMass)
Talk
Lunch - 12 - 1:30pm
Session 4: Real Time or Real Fast (1:30 - 3pm)
Making it Practical: A Real-Time Garbage Collector that
Does Not Need Allocation Rates - Filip Pizlo, Tony Hosking
(Purdue)
Talk
Redline: Cooperative Scheduling of CPU, Memory, and
I/O - Ting Yang, Emery Berger, Scott Kaplan, Eliot Moss
(UMass and Amherst College)
Talk
Effective Shape Analysis for Program Parallelization
- Mark Marron and Darko Stefanovic (UNM)
Talk
Coffee break - 3 - 3:30pm
Session 5: Analysis, Code, and Architecture (3:30pm - 6pm)
Probabilistic Calling Context - Mike Bond and
Kathryn S McKinley (Texas)
Proving Open Nesting using Abstract Models - Trek
Palmer and Eliot Moss (UMass)
Talk
Coordinated Instrumentation via Coordinated
Simulation - Ed Walters, Eliot Moss, Chip Weems
(UMass)
Talk
break (15 min)
Explaining the Causes of Analysis Failure -
Daniel von Dincklage, and Amer Diwan (Colorado)
Intel 64 Architecture Memory Ordering - Richard
Hudson and Bratin Saha (Intel)
Dinner - 6:30pm - 8:30pm (in honor of Jim Burrill, in Turners Falls)
Social Activities - 9pm (Northampton)
Participants
| Steve Blackburn |
ANU |
| Cliff Click |
Azul Systems |
| Georges Saab |
BEA |
| Amer Diwan |
CU |
| Todd Mytkowicz |
CU |
| Emmanuel Cecchet |
EPFL |
| Dave Grove |
IBM |
| Erik Altman |
IBM |
| Gary Sevitsky |
IBM |
| Martin Hirzel |
IBM |
| Mike Hind |
IBM |
| Nick Mitchell |
IBM |
| Brian Lewis |
Intel |
| Rick Hudson |
Intel |
| Zhenlin Wang |
MTU |
| Athul Acharya |
Purdue |
| Filip Pizlo |
Purdue |
| Phil McGachey |
Purdue |
| Tony Hosking |
Purdue |
| Dave Dice |
Sun |
| Jan Willem-Maessen |
Sun |
| Eddie Aftandilian |
Tufts |
| Sam Guyer |
Tufts / Veracode |
| John Cavazos |
U Delaware |
| Byn Choi |
UMass |
| Charles Weems |
UMass |
| Ed Walters |
UMass |
| Eliot Moss |
UMass |
| Emery Berger |
UMass |
| Gene Novark |
UMass |
| Jacob Sorber |
UMass |
| Tim Richards |
UMass |
| Ting Yang |
UMass |
| Tongping Liu |
UMass |
| Trek Palmer |
UMass |
| Mark Marron |
UNM |
| BC Lee |
UT-Austin |
| Bassem El-Karablieh |
UT-Austin |
| Jenn Sartor |
UT-Austin |
| Jungwoo Ha |
UT-Austin |
| Kathryn McKinley |
UT-Austin |
| Maria Jump |
UT-Austin |
| Mike Bond |
UT-Austin |
| Safraz Khurshid |
UT-Austin |
| Suriya Subramanian |
UT-Austin |