---------------------------------------------------------- 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 ([email protected]). --------------------------------------- Important Dates: - Submission deadline: 8 January 2012 - Notification of Acceptance: 15 January 2012 _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc
