
The Second ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Transactional
Computing
Held in conjunction
with PODC 2007
Portland, Oregon, August 16, 2007
Final Program
Unless otherwise noted, all events are in Galleria I & II of the
Hilton Portland & Executive Tower.
Wed. Aug. 15
- 12:00 noon–6:00 pm
- Registation (Ballroom Foyer South)
- 6:30–8:00 pm
- Reception (Alexanders Restaurant & Lounge)
Thurs. Aug. 16
- 7:30 am
- Continental Breakfast
- 8:20 am
- Welcome
- 8:30 am — Semantics and Nesting.
Chair: Victor Luchangco, Sun Microsystems Laboratories.
- 9:30 am
- Discussion
- 10:00 am
- Break
- 10:20 am — Languages and Compilers.
Chair: Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, Intel Corporation.
-
Dissecting Transactional
Executions in Haskell
Cristian Perfumo, Nehir Sonmez, Osman S. Unsal, Adrian Cristal, and
Mateo Valero, Politècnica de Catalunya;
Tim Harris, Microsoft Research Cambridge
-
Integrating Transactional Memory
into C++
Lawrence Crowl, Google;
Yossi Lev, Brown University and Sun Microsystems;
Victor Luchangco, Mark Moir, and Dan Nussbaum, Sun Microsystems
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Capabilities and Limitations
of Library-Based Software Transactional Memory in C++
Luke Dalessandro,
Virendra J. Marathe,
Michael F. Spear, and
Michael L. Scott, University of Rochester
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Transactifying Applications Using
an Open Compiler Framework
Pascal Felber, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland;
Christof Fetzer, Ulrich Muller, Torvald Riegel, and
Martin Susskraut, TU Dresden, Germany;
Heiko Sturzrehm, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland
- 11:40 am
- Discussion
- 12:10 pm
- Lunch (Grand Ballroom II)
- 1:40 pm — Systems and Implementation.
Chair: Bradley C. Kuszmaul, MIT.
-
An Analysis of I/O and Syscalls in
Critical Sections and Their Implications for Transactional
Memory
Lee Baugh and Craig Zilles, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
-
Solving Difficult HTM Problems
Without Difficult Hardware
Owen S. Hofmann, Donald E. Porter, Christopher J. Rossbach,
Hany E. Ramadan, and
Emmett Witchel, University of Texas at Austin
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PhTM: Phased Transactional
Memory
Yosef Lev, Brown University and Sun Microsystems Laboratories;
Mark Moir and
Dan Nussbaum, Sun Microsystems Laboratories
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NZTM: Nonblocking Zero-Indirection
Transactional Memory
Fuad Tabba, Cong Wang, and
James R. Goodman, University of Auckland;
Mark Moir, Sun Microsystems Laboratories
- 3:00 pm
- Discussion
- 3:30 pm
- Break
- 3:50 pm — Panel
-
Beyond Transactions: The Evolution of Transactional
Memory
Moderator: Michael M. Swift, University of
Wisconsin–Madison
Panelists:
Christos Kozyrakis, Stanford University;
Ravi Rajwar, Intel Corporation;
Michael L. Scott, University of Rochester;
Emmett Witchell, University of Texas at Austin;
Craig Zilles, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- 5:50 pm
- Adjourn