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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call for participation]</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We’re pleased to announce the full programme for the SFMA multi-core workshop, and keynote
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<p class="MsoNormal">talk from Andrew Baumann on his experience building software for non-cache-coherent systems.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Full details below.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Please consider attending the following workshop we are holding at EuroSys
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">2011 in Salzburg.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">=================================================================<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> Call for Participation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Workshop on Systems for Future Multi-Core Architectures (SFMA’11)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> April 10th 2011, Salzburg, Austria
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> Co-located with
<a href="http://eurosys2011.cs.uni-salzburg.at/welcome.php">EuroSys 2011</a></span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family:"Courier New""><a href="http://research.microsoft.com/~rmcilroy/SFMA/index.htm">http://research.microsoft.com/~rmcilroy/SFMA/index.htm</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">The current trend towards multi-core computing is of significant
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">importance to practitioners of systems-level software, such as
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">operating systems, language runtimes and virtual machines. As the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">layer between application software and the underlying hardware,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">systems-level software must directly tackle the challenges of
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">multi-core hardware (e.g., scalability, concurrency control and
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">data-sharing costs), while providing appropriate abstractions to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">higher-level software. Future hardware is likely to increase the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">challenges encountered by systems software due to increasing
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">system diversity, core heterogeneity, complex memory hierarchies,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">dynamic core failure, and non-cache coherent shared memory.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">However, the abundance of parallelism and potential for core
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">specialization and inter-core message passing hardware also
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">provide a number of new opportunities for system software. The<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">current shift in hardware design provides an exciting opportunity<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">to radically rethink the design and implementation of systems-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">level software. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">The workshop on Systems for Future Multi-Core Architectures
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">(SFMA'11) brings together researchers in the operating systems,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">language runtime and virtual machine communities to exchange
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">ideas and experiences on the challenges and opportunities
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">presented by future multi-core hardware.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">This is a full day workshop, consisting of a keynote speech by<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Andrew Baumann on “Non-cache-coherent systems: The Barrelfish
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">experience”, two technical sessions, and a panel discussion
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">will with leading experts in the field on the challenges faced<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">by systems software due to future multi-core architectures.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">The full program is available at:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><a href="http://research.microsoft.com/~rmcilroy/SFMA/index.htm">http://research.microsoft.com/~rmcilroy/SFMA/index.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Program committee:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai (Intel)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Mats Brorsson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Juan Colmenares (University of California, Berkeley)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Stephan Diestelhorst (AMD)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Tim Harris (Microsoft Research Cambridge)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Hermann Härtig (TU Dresden)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Ross McIlroy (Microsoft Research Cambridge)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Derek Murray (University of Cambridge)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Timothy Roscoe (ETH Zürich)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Michael Scott (University of Rochester)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Jeremy Singer (University of Glasgow)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Joe Sventek (University of Glasgow)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Michael Swift (University of Wisconsin)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Ian Watson (University of Manchester)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Nickolai Zeldovich (MIT)
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