The PPoPP 2009 Program is included below. The early registration deadline is February 1, 2009. Note that the following meetings are co-located with PPoPP 2009:
| MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16 | |
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| 7:30 - 8:30 | Breakfast |
| 8:30 - 8:50 | Welcome |
| 8:50 - 10:00 | KEYNOTE I (Session Chair: Daniel Reed) University ABC Ballroom |
| Parallel Thinking Guy Blelloch Slides now available! | |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Break |
| 10:30 - 12:10 | SESSION 1: PARALLEL APPLICATIONS (Session Chair: Jan Willem-Maessen) University ABC Ballroom |
| How Much Parallelism is There in Irregular Applications? Milind Kulkarni, Martin Burtscher, R. Inkulu, Keshav Pingali, Calin Cascaval | |
| An Efficient Transactional Memory Algorithm for Computing Minimum Spanning Forest of Sparse Graphs
Seunghwa Kang, David Bader | |
| Atomic Quake: Using Transactional Memory in an Interactive Multiplayer Game Server
Ferad Zyulkyarov, Vladimir Gajinov, Osman Unsal, Adrian Cristal, Eduard Ayguade, Tim Harris, Mateo Valero | |
| Application-Aware Management of Parallel Simulation Collections
Siu Man Yau, Kostadin Damevski, Vijay Karamcheti, Steven G. Parker, Denis Zorin | |
| 12:10 - 13:25 | Lunch - State ABC Ballroom |
| 13:25 - 15:30 | SESSION 2: TASK MAPPING AND SCHEDULING (Session Chair: Tim Harris) University ABC Ballroom |
| Idempotent Work Stealing
Maged Michael, Martin Vechev, Vijay Saraswat | |
| Backtracking-based Load Balancing
Tasuku Hiraishi, Masahiro Yasugi, Seiji Umatani, Taiichi Yuasa | |
| Efficient and Scalable Multiprocessor Fair Scheduling Using Distributed Weighted Round-Robin
Tong Li, Dan Baumberger, Scott Hahn | |
| Mapping Parallelism to Multi-cores: A Machine Learning Based Approach
Zheng Wang, Michael F.P. O'Boyle | |
| Serialization Sets: A Dynamic Dependence-Based Parallel Execution Model
Matthew Allen, Srinath Sridharan, Gurindar Sohi | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Break |
| 16:00 - 17:30 | PANEL I (joint with HPCA) State DEF Ballroom |
| Opportunities Beyond Single-Core Microprocessors Moderator: Mark Hill Slides now available! | |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Break and poster set-up |
| 18:00 - 20:00 | Poster session and Reception Congressional Ballroom |
| TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17 | |
| 7:30 - 8:50 | Breakfast |
| 8:50 - 10:00 | KEYNOTE II (Session Chair: Yan Solihin) (joint with HPCA) State DEF Ballroom |
| Multi-core Demands Multi-Interfaces Yale Patt | |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Break |
| 10:30 - 12:10 | SESSION 3: ACCELERATOR SOFTWARE (Session Chair: Vivek Sarkar) University ABC Ballroom |
| OpenMP to GPGPU: A Compiler Framework for Automatic Translation and Optimization
Seyong Lee, Seung-Jai Min, Rudolf Eigenmann | |
| Comparability Graph Coloring for Optimizing Utilization of Stream Register Files in Stream Processors
Xuejun Yang, Li Wang, Jingling Xue, Yu Deng, Ying Zhang | |
| Solving dense linear systems on platforms with multiple hardware accelerators
Gregorio Quintana-Orti, Francisco D. Igual, Enrique S. Quintana- Orti, Robert A. van de Geijn | |
| A Comparison of Programming Models for Multiprocessors with Explicitly Managed Memory Hierarchies
Scott Schneider, Jae-Seung Yeom, Benjamin Rose, John C. Linford, Adrian Sandu, Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos | |
| 12:10 - 13:25 | Lunch - State ABC Ballroom |
| 13:25 - 15:30 | SESSION 4: ATOMICITY AND RACES (Session Chair: Tatiana Shpeisman) University ABC Ballroom |
| A Comprehensive Strategy for Contention Management in Software Transactional Memory
Michael Spear, Luke Dalessandro, Virendra Marathe, Michael Scott | |
| Safe Open-Nested Transactions Through Ownership
Kunal Agrawal, Angelina Lee, Jim Sukha | |
| Committing Conflicting Transactions in an STM
Hany Ramadan, Indrajit Roy, Maurice Herlihy, Emmett Witchel | |
| Detecting and Tolerating Asymmetric Races
Paruj Ratanaworabhan, Martin Burtscher, Darko Kirovski, Benjamin Zorn, Karthik Pattabiraman, Rahul Nagpal | |
| Transactional Memory with Strong Atomicity Using Off-the-Shelf Memory Protection Hardware
Martin Abadi, Tim Harris, Mojtaba Mehrara | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Break |
| 16:00 - 17:30 | PANEL II (joint with HPCA) State DEF Ballroom |
| Industrial Perspectives Panel Moderator: Partha Ranganathan | |
| 17:30 - 18:30 | Break |
| 18:30 | Conference Excursion |
| WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18 | |
| 7:30 - 8:20 | Breakfast |
| 8:20 - 10:00 | SESSION 5: PARALLEL COMPILERS AND TOOLS (Session Chair: Calin Cascaval) University ABC Ballroom |
| Techniques for Efficient Placement of Synchronization Primitives
Alex Nicolau, Arun Kejariwal, Guangqiang Li | |
| A Compiler-Directed Data Prefetching Scheme for Chip Multiprocessors
Seung Woo Son, Mahmut Kandemir, Mustafa Karakoy, Dhruva Chakrabarti | |
| Compiler-Assisted Dynamic Scheduling for Effective Parallelization of Loop Nests on Multicore Processors
Muthu Manikandan Baskaran, Nagavijayalakshmi Vydyanathan, Uday Bondhugula, J Ramanujam, Atanas Rountev. P Sadayappan | |
| Effective Performance Measurement and Analysis of Multithreaded Applications
Nathan Tallent, John Mellor-Crummey | |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Break |
| 10:20 - 12:00 | SESSION 6: HIGH END COMPUTING SOFTWARE (Session Chair: Lauren Smith) University ABC Ballroom |
| Petascale Computing with Accelerators
Michael Kistler, John Gunnels, Daniel Brokenshire, Brad Benton | |
| MPIWiz: Subgroup Reproducible Replay of MPI Applications
Ruini Xue, Xuezheng Liu, Ming Wu, Zhenyu Guo, Wenguang Chen, Weimin Zheng, Zheng Zhang, Geoffrey Voelker | |
| Formal Verification of Practical MPI Programs
Anh Vo, Sarvani Vakkalanka, Michael Delisi, Ganesh Gopalakrishnan, Mike Kirby, Rajeev Thakur | |
| Efficient, Portable Implementation of Asynchronous Multi-place Programs
Ganesh Bikshandi, Jose Castanos, Sreedhar Kodali, Krishna Nandivada, Igor Peshansky, Vijay Saraswat, Sayantan Sur, Pradeep Varma, Tong Wen | |
| 12:00 - 12:150 | Break |
| 12:15 - 13:00 | KEYNOTE III (Session Chair: Keshav Pingali) (joint with HPCA) State ABC Ballroom |
| How to Build Programmable Multi-Core Chips Jack Dennis Slides now available! | |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Best paper presentation and closing remarks |