CnC'19 Workshop

Important Dates

Workshop: December 3–4, 2019

Chairs

Louis-Noel Pouchet: Colorado State University
P. Sadayappan: University of Utah

Steering committee

Zoran Budimlić: Rice University
Martin Kong: University of Oklahoma
Kath Knobe: Rice University
Robert Harrison: Stony Brook University
Louis-Noel Pouchet: Colorado State University
Frank Schlimbach: Intel Corp.

Past Workshops

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 University of Utah, in Salt Lake City, UT.

Location: Warnock Engineering Building, room 2760, the University of Utah

We do not have negotiated rates with local hotels, instead just reserve a hotel at your convenience. We recommend the Hampton Inn & Suites Salt Lake City/University-Foothill Dr. which is conveniently located.

Registration

Thanks to the generous donations from our sponsors, we will not require a registration fee for workshop attendance this year. Utah students: feel free to stop by.

Agenda for the workshop:

Tuesday morning (Tutorials)

9:30am:
Introduction to CnC: A dependence programming model
Kath Knobe

10:15am:
Coffee break

10:30am:
Introduction to Intel Concurrent Collections
Louis-Noel Pouchet

11:30am:
MADNESS -- a moving target
Robert Harrison

12:00pm:
Lunch break

Tuesday afternoon (Keynote and Tech. Talks)

1:00pm:
Keynote: How to Sugarcoat System Resilience?
Ganesh Gopalakrishnan

2:00pm:
Formalizing CnC semantics
Tiago Cogumbreiro and Kath Knobe

2:30pm:
CnC Program Annotations
Zoran Budimlic and Kath Knobe

3:00pm:
Coffee break

3:30pm:
Continuation Marks: Compiler-Visible and Concurrency-Friendly Reflection on Control (Invited talk)
Matthew Flatt

4:00pm:
A CnC-like language to optimize DNA manufacturing processes
Louis-Noel Pouchet and Jean Peccoud

4:30pm:
Efficient Execution of Dynamic Programs using Data-Flow Parallel Paradigm
Mohammad Mahdi Javanmard

Wednesday morning (Keynote and Tech. Talks)

9:00am:
Keynote: Specialized dataflow DSL as an alternative programming paradigm
George Bosilca

10:00am:
Coffee break

10:30am:
Distributed Hierarchical CnC Runtime
Srdjan Milakovic and Zoran Budimlic

11:00am:
CnC-in-CnC
Kath Knobe

11:30am:
Tracing for Distributed CnC
Srdjan Milakovic and Zoran Budimlic

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 pouchet@colostate.edu and saday@cs.utah.edu.

CnC 2019: The Eleventh Annual Concurrent Collections Workshop

December 3–4, 2019 at the University of Utah (Salt Lake City, UT)

Location: Warnock Engineering Building, room 2760, the University of Utah