Euro-TM 2012 - 1st Euro-TM Workshop on Distributed Transactional Memory

1st Euro-TM Workshop on Distributed Transactional Memory
IST/INESC-ID, Lisbon
22 February 2012
http://www.eurotm.org/action-meetings/wdtm2012

The Transactional Memory (TM) abstraction has been traditionally
targeted towards cache-coherent parallel systems, and later fostered by
the multi-core revolution. Over the last years, however, there has been
a growing effort aimed at seeking a convergence between the TM model and
the distributed computing paradigm. The resulting model, typically
referred to as Distributed Transactional Memory (DTM), aims at
introducing a novel programming abstraction that combines the simplicity
of TMs with the scalability and failure resiliency achievable by
leveraging the resource redundancy of large scale distributed platforms.
This recent area of research builds on results originated in fields such
as distributed shared memory, parallel and distributed databases,
programming paradigms for distributed computing, and appears
particularly attractive for inherently distributed application domains
such as Cloud computing or HPC. In the context of Cloud computing, DTMs
allow to effectively mask the complexities associated with concurrent
state management in elastic, distributed platforms, with the aim of
maximizing the productivity of non-specialists programmers. In HPC
domain, several specialized programming languages (such as X10 or
Fortress) have been already providing programmatic support for the DTM
abstraction, and the recent integration of hardware TM mechanism in
commodity high-performance microprocessors has further increased the
interest towards the adoption of the DTM paradigm in HPC platforms.
Euro-TM Workshop on Distributed Transactional Memory (WDTM) aims to
feature work-in-progress snapshots on this recent branch of TM research.
Euro-TM is a Cost Action initiative, supported by the European
Commission (http://www.eurotm.org).
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- theoretical foundations of DTMs
- algorithms for replicated and distributed TMs
- scalability in large-scale DTM platforms
- language and compiler support for DTM
- DTM semantics
- transactions and weak consistency models
- DTM applications and benchmarks
- OS/runtime support for DTMs
- DTM debugging support
- hardware support for DTM
The workshop will consist of short presentations and will not have any
published proceedings to facilitate later submission to other venues. To
submit a presentation proposal, please send a 400 word description of
your research-in-progress, in plain text, together with the title and
authors to Paolo Romano (romano-AT-inesc-id.pt).

Important Dates:
- Submission deadline: 8 January 2012
- Notification of Acceptance: 15 January 2012