From lgj at usenix.org Tue Jan 12 23:52:04 2010 From: lgj at usenix.org (Lionel Garth Jones) Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:52:04 -0800 Subject: HotPar '10 Submissions Deadline Approaching Message-ID: We're writing to remind you that the submissions deadline for the 2nd USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Parallelism (HotPar '10) is quickly approaching. Please submit you work by Sunday, January 24, 2010. http://www.usenix.org/hotpar10/cfpb HotPar '10 will bring together researchers and practitioners doing innovative work in the area of parallel computing. HotPar recognizes the broad impact of multicore computing and seeks relevant contributions in all fields, including application design, languages and compilers, systems, and architecture. We request submissions of 5-page position papers that propose new directions for research of products in these areas, advocate non-traditional approaches to the problems engendered by parallelism, or potentially generate controversy and discussion. More information and submission guidelines are available at http://www.usenix.org/hotpar10/cfpb We look forward to receiving your submissions! Sincerely, Geoff Lowney, Intel David Patterson, University of California, Berkeley HotPar '10 Program Co-Chairs hotpar10chairs at usenix.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers: 2nd USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Parallelism (HotPar '10) June 14-15, 2010 Berkeley, CA, USA http://www.usenix.org/hotpar10/cfpb Sponsored by USENIX in cooperation with ACM SIGMETRICS, ACM SIGSOFT, ACM SIGOPS, ACM SIGARCH, and ACM SIGPLAN Position paper submissions due: January 24, 2010 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From jim at well.com Wed Jan 27 22:53:24 2010 From: jim at well.com (jim) Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:53:24 -0800 Subject: BayPIGgies meeting Thursday, January 28, 2010: Unladen Swallow Message-ID: <1264629204.6604.36.camel@jim-laptop> BayPIGgies meeting Thursday, January 28, 2010: Unladen Swallow Tonight's talk is * Unladen Swallow by Collin Winter and Jeffrey Yasskin Meetings usually start with a Newbie Nugget, a short discussion of an essential Python feature, especially for those new to Python. Tonight's Newbie Nugget: Comprehensions and Other Such Stuff LOCATION Symantec Corporation Symantec Vcafe 350 Ellis Street Mountain View, CA 94043 http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&fb=1&split=1&gl=us&ei=w6i_Sfr6MZmQsQOzlv0v&hl=en&t=h&msa=0&msid=116202735295394761637.00046550c09ff3d96bff1&ll=37.397693,-122.053707&spn=0.002902,0.004828&z=18 BayPIGgies meeting information is available at http://www.baypiggies.net/ ------------------------ Agenda ------------------------ ..... 7:30 PM ........................... General hubbub, inventory end-of-meeting announcements, any first-minute announcements. ..... 7:35 PM to 7:45 PM ................ Newbie Nugget: Comprehensions and Other Such Stuff by Wesley Chun ..... 7:45 PM to 8:40 PM (or so) ................ * Unladen Swallow by Collin Winter and Jeffrey Yasskin Abstract: A discussion about optimizing dynamic languages generally, optimizing Python specifically, and how Google's Unladen Swallow project is speeding up CPython. This talk will cover Google's motivation for UnladenSwallow, the approach being taken, results so far, challenges faced, cancers cured, and plans for merger with CPython. Bio: Collin Winter is a software engineer on Google's compiler team, where he serves as tech lead for Unladen Swallow, a Google-sponsored open-source project to speed up CPython. He's a long-time core Python developer, having contributed to the development of Python 3000 and having co-authored the 2to3 tool with Guido van Rossum. Bio: Jeffrey Yasskin is a software engineer on Google's compiler team, where he works on Unladen Swallow, a Google-sponsored open-source project to speed up CPython. He's a Python and LLVM committer, having contributed to the development of Python 3000 and fixed several critical bugs in LLVM's JIT infrastructure. Links: http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/ http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/wiki/ProjectPlan http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/wiki/GettingStarted ..... 8:30 PM to 9:20 PM ................ Mapping and Random Access Mapping is a rapid-fire audience announcement of issues, hiring, events, and other topics. Random Access follows people immediately to allow follow up on the announcements and other interests.