13th International Conference on Principles and Practices of Programming on the Java Platform: Virtual Machines, Languages, and Tools (PPPJ ’16)

Over the past two decades, the Java platform has made a leap from a single-language object-oriented platform to a diverse multi-purpose programming environment. Java technologies now cover a rich diversity of system components, languages, tools, frameworks, and techniques. They impact and are impacted by the current development in essential domains such as cloud, mobile and network computing, inspiring research in managed languages, compiler technologies, and runtime environments.

The 2016 International Conference on Principles and Practices of Programming on the Java Platform: Virtual Machines, Languages, and Tools (PPPJ’16) - the 13th conference in the PPPJ series - provides a forum for researchers, practitioners, and educators to present and discuss novel results on all aspects of managed languages and their runtime systems, including virtual machines, tools, methods, frameworks, libraries, case studies, and experience reports. Managed languages and runtime systems of interest include, but are not limited to, Java, Scala, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, C#, F#, Clojure, Groovy, Kotlin, R, Java VM, Dalvik VM and Android Runtime (ART), LLVM, .NET CLR, RPython.
 
PPPJ'16 is in-cooperation with ACM SIGPLAN, SIGSOFT, SIGAPP and SPEC RG. The conference proceedings will be published as part of the 
ACM International Conference Proceedings Series and will be disseminated 
through the ACM Digital Library.
 
 

Essential Information

  • Submission website: http://easychair.org/conferences?conf=pppj2016
  • Abstract submission deadline (for assigning reviewers): June 2, 2016
  • Submission deadline (version for reviewing): June 6, 2016 extended to June 13, 2016 AoE (Anywhere on Earth)
  • Registering paper title and abstract before the submission deadline is optional but encouraged
  • Author notification: July 11, 2016
  • Camera ready papers deadline: July 25, 2016
  • Conference date: August 29 - 31, 2016 (entire colocated event August 29 - September 2)
  • Email to: petr.tuma@d3s.mff.cuni.cz
  • Location: Lugano, Switzerland, as part of the Managed Languages & Runtime Week '16

Hybrid Parallelism for Visualization

Hank Childs (University of Oregon and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Abstract

Many of today’s parallel visualization programs are designed for distributed-memory parallelism, but not for the shared-memory parallelism available on GPUs or multi-core CPUs. However, architectural trends on supercomputers increasingly contain more and more cores per node, whether through the presence of GPUs or through more cores per CPU node. To make the best use of such hardware, we must evaluate the benefits of hybrid parallelism — parallelism that blends distributed- and shared-memory approaches — for visualization's data-intensive workloads. With this talk, Hank explores the fundamental challenges and opportunities for hybrid parallelism with visualization, and discusses recent results that measure its benefit.

Short biography

Hank Childs is an assistant professor at the University of Oregon and a computer systems engineer at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His research focuses on scientific visualization, high performance computing, and the intersection of the two. He received the Department of Energy Career award in 2012 to research explorative visualization use cases on exascale machines. Additionally, Hank is one of the founding members of the team that developed the VisIt visualization and analysis software. He received his Ph.D. from UC Davis in 2006.

 

Depth, You, and the World

Jamie Shotton (Microsoft Research, Cambridge)

Abstract

Consumer level depth cameras such as Kinect have changed the landscape of 3D computer vision. In this talk we will discuss two approaches that both learn to directly infer correspondences between observed depth image pixels and 3D model points. These