Motto : From Solo to Symphony - Making your application go multi-core! Website : http://events.sac-home.org/s-hack/ When? : Mon. 14.4. - Wed. 16.4. 2008 Where? : University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK; 51.7522 N 0.242 W Who can participate? : Anybody who has a computationally intensive application which can be expressed in terms of non-recursive data structures and operations thereon and who wants to have it all: * a nice and intuitive high-level specification * and high-performance, parallelised execution on multi-core architectures! Agenda : Mo / Tue : tutorials on our functional streaming & data parallel framework Tue / Wed : you start your own application using our framework Costs? : participation is free; hacking essentials such as coffee and electricity on a 24 hour basis also come for free! Catch? : we only have a limited amount of places available and will give these away on a first come first serve basis! How can I register? : Send an email to events@sac-home.org in which you state: * your name * your affiliation * the nature of your application -- Stephan Herhut Centre for Computer Science and Informatics Research Science and Technology Research Institute University of Hertfordshire