The Second ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Transactional Computing

To be 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.

• Abstract Nested Transactions
  Tim Harris, Microsoft Research; Srdjan Stipic, Barcelona Supercomputing Center   [slides]
• Nested Parallelism in Transactional Memory
  Kunal Agrawal, Jeremy Fineman, and Jim Sukha, MIT   [slides]
• High-Level Small-Step Operational Semantics for Transactions
  Katherine F. Moore and Dan Grossman, University of Washington   [slides]

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   [slides]
• Integrating Transactional Memory into C++
  Lawrence Crowl, Google; Yossi Lev, Brown University and Sun Microsystems; Victor Luchangco, Mark Moir, and Dan Nussbaum, Sun Microsystems   [slides]
• 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   [slides]
• 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   [slides]

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   [slides]
• 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   [slides]
• PhTM: Phased Transactional Memory
  Yosef Lev, Brown University and Sun Microsystems Laboratories; Mark Moir and Dan Nussbaum, Sun Microsystems Laboratories   [slides]
• NZTM: Nonblocking Zero-Indirection Transactional Memory
  Fuad Tabba, Cong Wang, and James R. Goodman, University of Auckland; Mark Moir, Sun Microsystems Laboratories   [slides]

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
  slides.tgz

5:50 pm

Adjourn