The concurrency and scale-out era is upon us. Application programmers need to confront the architectural challenge of multiples cores and accelerators, clusters and supercomputers. A central need is the development of a usable programming model that can address these challenges – dealing with thousands of cores and peta-bytes of data.
The open-source X10 programming language is designed to address these twin challenges of productivity and performance. It is organized around four basic principles of asynchrony, locality, atomicity and order, developed on a type-safe, class-based, object-oriented foundation. This foundation is robust enough to support fine-grained concurrency, Cilk-style fork-join programming, GPU programming, SPMD computations, active messaging, MPI-style communicators and cluster programming. X10 implementations are available on a wide range of systems ranging from laptops, to clusters, to supercomputers.
The X10 Workshop is intended as a forum for X10 programmers, developers, researchers, and educators. We anticipate the program of the workshop to combine keynotes and presentations of selected papers with ample time for discussions. We are soliciting both short papers (4-6 pages) and extended talk abstracts (2 pages). We encourage submissions on all aspects of X10, including theory, design, implementation, practice, curriculum development and experience, applications and tools. This will be a full day workshop.
Please the external website for the X10’15 workshop for details.
Sun 14 JunDisplayed time zone: Tijuana, Baja California change
09:00 - 11:00 | |||
09:00 15mDay opening | Opening and Welcome X10 | ||
09:15 75mTalk | Introduction to X10 X10 Olivier Tardieu IBM Research Link to publication | ||
10:30 30mTalk | The X10 Global Matrix Library: A Resilient Framework for Linear Algebra Applications X10 Sara S. Hamouda Australian National University, Josh Milthorpe IBM Research, Peter Strazdins Australian National University, Vijay Saraswat IBM TJ Watson Research Center Link to publication |
11:20 - 12:30 | |||
11:20 30mTalk | Revisiting Loop Transformations with X10 Clocks X10 Link to publication | ||
11:50 30mTalk | Local Parallel Iteration in X10 X10 Josh Milthorpe IBM Research Link to publication |
14:00 - 15:30 | |||
14:00 30mTalk | Cutting Out the Middleman: OS-Level Support for X10 Activities X10 Manuel Mohr Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Sebastian Buchwald Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Andreas Zwinkau Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Christoph Erhardt Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Benjamin Oechslein Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Jens Schedel Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Daniel Lohmann Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg Link to publication | ||
14:30 30mTalk | Optimization of X10 Programs with ROSE Compiler Infrastructure X10 Michihiro Horie IBM Research - Tokyo, Mikio Takeuchi IBM Research - Tokyo, Kiyokuni Kawachiya IBM Research - Tokyo, David Grove IBM Research Link to publication | ||
15:00 30mTalk | The APGAS Library: Resilient Parallel and Distributed Programming in Java 8 X10 Olivier Tardieu IBM Research Link to publication |
16:00 - 18:00 | |||
16:00 30mTalk | Towards an Efficient Fault-Tolerance Scheme for GLB X10 Link to publication | ||
16:30 30mTalk | Scalable Parallel Numerical Constraint Solver Using Global Load Balancing X10 Daisuke Ishii Tokyo Institute of Technology, Kazuki Yoshizoe Japan Science and Technology Agency, Toyotaro Suzumura IBM Research / University College Dublin / JST Link to publication |
Accepted Papers
Call for Papers
Papers can be submitted at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=x1015.
Submissions may be one of the following:
- Short paper: four to six pages in ACM SIGPLAN proceedings style (9-point type, all inclusive),
- Extended abstract: two pages in ACM SIGPLAN proceedings style (9-point type, all inclusive).
Submissions must be in PDF and printable on US Letter and A4 sized paper.
All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the program committee. During the workshop, extended abstracts will receive a shorter presentation and discussion period.
Accepted papers will be hosted on the X10 website. Accepted authors will have the option of having their paper in the proceedings that will be published by the ACM.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Curriculum development using X10 and experience
- Applications and experience, X10 programming pearls
- High-level frameworks and libraries: map reduce, parallel matrix and graph libraries, global load balancing frameworks
- Performance analysis, comparison between performance of X10 application in managed environment vs native environment
- Foundations: weak-memory models, models of imperative concurrency, reasoning techniques for dynamic concurrency
- Extensions: fault-tolerance, dynamic places, hierarchical places
- Type systems for concurrency and alias management
- Deterministic computation, phased computations – clock-based concurrency, stream-based computation
- Static analyses for atomicity violations, race conditions, deadlock-freedom
- Compilation techniques: code generation, compilation for work-stealing, concurrency and communication optimizations, compilation for scale
- Runtime systems, interoperability with Java, MPI
- Design and evaluation of JVM extensions for X10
- Distributed GC
- Design and experience with development tools (IDEs) for X10
- Performance analysis and monitoring tools
- Testing, bug detection and program understanding tools
- Debugging frameworks, including large-scale debugging, differential debugging
Please the external website for the X10’15 workshop for details.