CnC'18 Workshop

The annual Concurrent Collections (CnC) workshop is as a forum for researchers and developers of parallel programs to interact on a variety of issues related to next-generation parallel programming models. The focus is on fostering a community around the CnC programming model; however, we also strongly encourage participation by anyone with an interest programming models inspired by dataflow and/or tuple space ideas as well as current or emerging applications of such models.

Location

The workshop will be held at the Institute for Advanced Computational Science in Stony Brook University. Travel, lodging and registration information will be posted soon.

Online Registration

Thanks to the generous donations from our sponsors, we will not require a registration fee for workshop attendance this year. However, we still require online registration to ensure we have sufficient seating and refreshments. If you plan to attend all or part of the workshop this year, please register online by Monday November 12, 2018:
Registration form to come soon.

Hotel Information

Attendees can find lodge at the Hilton Garden Inn Stony Brook. Conveniently located at just an 8 minute walk from IACS.

Participation and call for abstracts

The workshop agenda includes a CnC tutorial on current and future trends and talks selected from contributed abstracts. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: language design and implementation, semantics and theory, application experiences, and teaching CnC.

If you are interested in giving a talk, please submit a short abstract (between 200–500 words in length) to the workshop chairs at cnc.workshop.committee@gmail.com no later than Friday, November 2, 2018. Please include:

Name
Affiliation
Abstract of the work to be presented (please limit to a maximum of 500 words)

Workshop Agenda - Thursday (Tutorials)

Introduction to CnC: A dependence programming model
Kath Knobe
Rice University

Introduction to Intel Concurrent Collections
Frank Schlimbach
Intel

Polyhedral Optimization of CnC Programs
Martin Kong and Louis
Noel Pouchet
Colorado State University

Workshop Agenda - Friday (Technical Talks)

Welcome
Robert Harrison and Martin Kong

Barbara Chapman
Tasking in the Future
Stony Brook University and Brookhaven National Laboratory

Tiles optimization in the application of Inner Product
Dejan Grubišić, Srđan Milanković, Zoran Budimlić
Rice University

Hierarchical CnC and Related Topics
Kath Knobe
Rice University

Updates on Regularity Detection and Pattern
Matching for CnC Programs
Gabriel Rodriguez and Louis-Noel Pouchet

11:45 (Serving food break)

Cache Analysis and Optimization Based on Reuse-time Distribution
Chen Ding
University of Rochester

Runtime Support for Tiled CnC Execution
Srđan Milakovic, Zoran Budimlic
Rice University

Automatic Code Generation to Dynamic Task Based Runtimes: Recent Results
Charles Jin
Reservoir Labs

Dependence Programming and Tiling for Irregular Numerical Applications
Mahdi Javanmard and Robert Harrison
Stony Brook University

Workshop closure
Robert Harrison and Martin Kong

Background on CnC

CnC is a parallel programming model for mainstream programmers that philosophically differs from other approaches. CnC programmers do not specify parallel operations. Instead, they only specify semantic ordering constraints. This provides a separation of concerns between the domain expert and tuning expert, simplifying the domain expert’s job while providing more flexibility to the tuning expert. Details on CnC and related research can be found at:

https://icnc.github.io
and
https://habanero.rice.edu/cnc

Prior workshops have served as a forum for users and potential users of Concurrent Collections (CnC), to discuss experiences with CnC and a range of topics, including developments for the language, applications, usability, performance, semantics, and teaching of CnC.

Need more information?

If you have any questions about logistics or participation, please contact the workshop chairs at cnc.workshop.committee@gmail.com.

CnC 2018: The Tenth Annual Concurrent Collections Workshop

November 29–30, 2018 at Stony Brook University (Stony Brook, NY)

Important Dates

Chairs

Steering committee

Past Workshops