WoDet 2013 - 4th Workshop on Determinism and Correctness in Parallel Programming

There is a growing consensus that parallel programming can benefit from safety properties such as determinism and race freedom, but the debate over which properties to provide, and how to provide them, is far from settled. Many open questions remain: What are the performance and programmability trade-offs for providing a particular safety property? Which properties strike the right balance between eliminating or identifying bugs and restricting the programmer? How can we support code that needs to violate safety properties for performance or expressivity reasons? How can each layer of the system stack contribute to these goals? These questions are increasingly urgent as more and more computing goes parallel, from cell phones to data centers.
The Workshop on Determinism and Correctness in Parallel Programming (WoDet) is an across-the-stack forum to discuss the role of a wide range of correctness properties in parallel and concurrent programming. While determinism is an important theme, the scope of the workshop includes other correctness properties for parallel programs and systems. The workshop will be a full day event with invited talks and technical sessions for short peer-reviewed papers discussing ideas, positions, or preliminary research results.
Topics
In addition to answers to the questions above, topics of interest include:
Language support for disciplined parallel programming
Architecture, operating system, runtime system and compiler support for parallel program correctness
Concurrency debugging techniques
New properties of parallel programs
Limit studies and empirical studies of the cost of safety properties
Studies of the applicability of correctness properties in parallel programs and algorithms
Concurrency bug avoidance techniques
Real-world experience with safe parallel programming models, systems, or tools