*************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS ARRAY 2016 3rd ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Libraries, Languages and Compilers for Array Programming Santa Barbara, CA, USA June 14, 2016 http://conf.researchr.org/home/array-2016/ EXTENDED DEADLINE: April 11, 2016 (FIRM!) *************************************************************************** ARRAY 2016 is part of PLDI 2016 37th Annual ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation June 13-17, 2016 http://conf.researchr.org/home/pldi-2016/ *************************************************************************** About: Array-oriented programming is a powerful abstraction for compactly implementing numerically intensive algorithms. Many modern languages now provide some support for collective array operations, which are used by an increasing number of programmers (and non-programmers) for data analysis and scientific computing. This workshop is intended to bring together researchers from many different communities, including language designers, library developers, compiler researchers and practitioners who are working on numeric, array-centric aspects of programming languages, libraries and methodologies from all domains: imperative or declarative, object-oriented or not, interpreted or compiled, strongly typed, weakly typed or untyped. *************************************************************************** Keynote speakers: We are proud to announce two distinguished keynote speakers: Bradford Chamberlain Principal Engineer at Cray Inc, Seattle, USA Chief designer of the Chapel high productivity language Morten Kromberg User Experience Director (CXO) at Dyalog Ltd, Bramley, UK Commercial provider of APL interpreters, tools and services *************************************************************************** Focus: The aim of the ARRAY workshop series is to foster the cross-pollination of concepts across domains, projects and research communities and to explore new directions, such as: + Expanding the scope of array programming to encompass a wider range of data types and computations, + Transparently utilizing parallel hardware (multi-core, SIMD, GPU, FPGA) by leveraging the implicitly parallel semantics of array operations, + Simplifying the embedding of array constructs within existing languages which weren't designed for numerical computing, + Connections between array abstractions and other models such as dataflow programming, stream programming, and data parallelism, + High-level compilation and optimization techniques for array-oriented programs, + Compilers, virtual machines and frameworks for array-oriented programming languages. *************************************************************************** Important Dates: Paper submissions: Fri, Apr 11, 2016 (anywhere on earth) Notification of authors: Wed, Apr 27, 2016 Camera-ready copies due: Fri, May 27, 2016 (anywhere on earth) Workshop date: Tue, Jun 14, 2016 *************************************************************************** Submissions: Manuscripts may fall into one of the following categories: + research papers on any topic related to the focus of the workshop + tool descriptions reporting on a tool relevant to the workshop area Submissions should be 4-8 pages for research papers 4-6 pages for tool descriptions. In the case of a tool description the workshop presentation should include a demo of the tool, and the submission should include a short appendix summarizing the tool demo. This appendix is for the information of the PC only, and will not be part of the published paper, nor does it count into the six page limit. Clearly mark your submission as either a research paper or a tool description in the paper's subtitle. Submissions must be in PDF format printable in black and white on US Letter sized paper and interpretable by Ghostscript. Papers must adhere to the standard SIGPLAN conference format: two columns, nine-point font on a ten-point baseline, with columns 20pc (3.33in) wide and 54pc (9in) tall, with a column gutter of 2pc (0.33in). A suitable document template for LaTeX is available at http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/. Papers must be submitted using EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=array2016 As in previous years, accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. *************************************************************************** Keynote by Bradford Chamberlain: Lessons Learned in Array Programming: from ZPL to Chapel In this talk, I'll start by providing a review of array programming in ZPL, an academic data-parallel programming language developed at the University of Washington during the 1990's. I'll describe the strengths and weaknesses of ZPL's support for array computation and describe how the lessons we learned in the ZPL project influenced Chapel's design and its support for arrays and data parallelism. In doing so, I'll provide a glimpse into some of Chapel's main research challenges and contributions, including user-defined distributions, parallel zippered iteration, and mapping to contemporary processor architectures. In doing so, I'll also attempt to characterize what I view as the key distinctions between successful languages developed in academia versus industry based on my experiences with both ZPL and Chapel. *************************************************************************** Keynote by Morten Kromberg: Notation for Parallel Thoughts Since the original APL\360 interpreter saw the light of day in 1966, a large part of the of primitive functions in APL (A Programming Language) implicitly map operations to all elements of array arguments (and arrays of numbers or characters are the only “types” available in the language). Over the decades, the parallelism at the core of the notation has been extended, to nested arrays in the 1980’s and arrays of objects in the 00’s. In this decade, arrays of futures have been added to provide users of APL with the ability to express asynchronous -– but deterministic -- algorithms. This talk will introduce the most important parallel constructs available in current Dyalog APL, which (despite the name) essentially remains an executable mathematical notation. *************************************************************************** Organizing Committee: Martin Elsman, University of Copenhagen (Chair) Clemens Grelck, University of Amsterdam (Chair) David Padua, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Andreas Klöckner, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign *************************************************************************** Programme Committee: Robert Bernecky, Snake Island Research, Canada Martin Elsman, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (Chair) Clemens Grelck, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands (Chair) Laurie Hendren , McGill University, Canada Stephan Herhut, Google Inc, Denmark Gabriele Keller, University of New South Wales, Australia Andreas Klöckner, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA (Chair) Hidehiko Masuhara, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan David Padua, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA (Chair) Mary Sheeran, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Jan Vitek, Northeastern University, USA *************************************************************************** Travel Funding: Since ARRAY 2006 is sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN, presenters and authors of papers are eligible to apply for SIGPLAN PAC funding. *************************************************************************** -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Clemens Grelck Science Park 904 University Lecturer 1098XH Amsterdam Netherlands University of Amsterdam Institute for Informatics T +31 (0) 20 525 8683 Computer Systems Architecture Group F +31 (0) 20 525 7490 Office C3.105 staff.fnwi.uva.nl/c.u.grelck ----------------------------------------------------------------------