NYU ManyCores Reading Group

The multicore revolution stands to be a major paradigm shift in the next several years. The current generation of programming tools for leveraging multiple cores require very skilled programmers who inevitably are and will be in short supply.

This reading group explores programming languages that enable high-level concurrency, such that a programmer is able to utilize many cores without considering low-level concepts such as threads. We are interested in new concurrent/parallel languages, novel concurrency primitives, and also looking at older languages (such as APL and Fortran) which are becoming more relevant in an age of many cores.

Organizers: Roy Lowrance, Alex Rubinsteyn
Sponsors: Dennis Shasha, Denis Zorin
Time: Mondays, 12:45-2:00pm
Place: Room 1221, 719 Broadway
Mailing List: http://www.cs.nyu.edu/mailman/listinfo/manycores

Spring 2009 Schedule

Date	Topic	Background Reading	Presenter	Slides
Feb. 2nd	Data Parallel Haskell	Harnessing the Multicores: Nested Data Parallelism in Haskell Simon Peyton Jones, Roman Leshchinskiy, Gabriele Keller, and Manuel M. T. Chakravarty Data Parallel Haskell: a status report Manuel M. T. Chakravarty, Roman Leshchinskiy, Simon Peyton Jones, Gabriele Keller, and Simon Marlow Current support for Data Parallel Haskell in GHC	Alex Rubinsteyn	[pdf]
Feb. 9th	Erlang	Concurrent programming in Erlang	Chris Conway	n/a
Feb. 16th	President's Day
Feb. 23rd	How Fast Can APL Be?	Overview of the APL programming language Literature Review (pdf)	Roy Lowrance	[pdf]
March 2nd	Single Assignment C	SAC Tutorial SAC - Functional Programming Using Imperative Style Sven-Bodo Scholz Programming Scientific Applications in SAC Sven-Bodo Scholz	Alex Rubinsteyn	[pdf] [ppt]
March 9th	Dense Linear Algebra Design Issues for Manycore Environments	Avoiding Communication in Linear Algebra Demmel Some Issues in Dense Linear Algebra for Multicore and Special Purpose Architectures Baboulin, Dongarra, and Tomov The Relevance of New Data Structure Approaches for Dense Linear Algebra in the New Multi-Core / Many Core Environments Gustavson	David Bindel	not yet
March 16th	Spring Break
March 23rd	Discussion on Concrete APL, J, K, and Q Examples	not yet	Dennis Shasha	not yet
March 24th	Tacit Parallelism Note: this talk is on a Tuesday and starts at 3pm	Abstract Parallel Computation Compiler Tools in APL Robert Bernecky	Robert Bernecky Snake Island Research	not yet
March 30th	No meeting
April 6th	No meeting
April 13th	K/Q Parallelized	K as a Prototyping Language Dennis Shasha	Eric Hieschle	not yet
April 20th	Manticore	A scheduling framework for general-purpose parallel languages Matthew Fluet, Mike Rainey, John Reppy The Manticore Project website	Mike Rainey	not yet
April 23rd	FPGA Parallelism	CNP: An FPGA-based processor for convolutional networks	Clement Farabet	not yet
April 27th	CUDA	Scalable Parallel Programming with CUDA on Manycore GPUs [video] John Nickols	Murphy Stein	part I part II
May 4th	Wrap-up, future plans	n/a	Alex & Roy	not yet