2010 MM-NET Workshop on

Memory Management and Managed Runtimes

Friday 28th May 2010, Cambridge

3 Jun 2010 - adding presentation slides to programme

28 May 2010 - around 30 people attended the workshop.

About the workshop

Memory management remains an important research area, given the increased adoption of managed runtime environments, and the challenges of multi-core and many-core platforms. This one-day workshop aims to bring together UK academics and industry, to create new links and enhance existing collaboration within the framework of the UK Memory Management Network.

The UK MM-NET (Memory Management Network) proposes to hold a workshop on Friday 28th May 2010 at Microsoft Research Cambridge. Participation is welcomed from both academic and industrial sectors. Topics of interest include but are not limited to

virtual machine implementation
garbage collection algorithms
performance tuning techniques
empirical studies of dynamic behaviour
abstractions and models for memory management
runtime support for multi-core

Workshop venue

[Microsoft Research Cambridge] The MMMR workshop on Friday 28th May 2010 will be held at Microsoft Research Cambridge.

Workshop registration is free, however participants must make their own travel and accommodation arrangements.

Cambridge Train station is the opposite side of town from Microsoft Research Cambridge. From the station, it would be best to take a taxi to MSR.
If you are driving to MSR, it would be convenient to leave your car at Madingley Road Park and Ride facility. MSR is a short walk from this car park [directions].

Registration

The Memory Management and Managed Runtimes (MMMR) workshop is free to attend, thanks to the generous support of Microsoft Research Cambridge. You can register for the workshop here. At this stage, all presentation slots in the programme have been taken. Thanks to all who volunteered to give a talk.

Programme

The schedule for the workshop on Fri 28 May 2010 is listed below.

1030-1100 Arrival: Coffee and refreshments
1100-1230 Topic: Innovative Java Platforms. Session Chair: Tim Harris
	Ross McIlroy	Microsoft Research	Hera-JVM: A Runtime System for Heterogeneous Multi-Core Architectures	(abstract) (slides)
	Mikel Lujan	University of Manchester	Building a Java MapReduce Framework for Multi-core Architectures
	Tony Hosking	Purdue University	Schism: Fragmentation-Tolerant Real-Time Garbage Collection	(abstract) (slides)
1230-1400 Lunch: (not provided)
1400-1530 Topic: Concurrency Issues for Memory Management. Session Chair: Richard Jones
	Stephan Herhut	University of Hertfordshire	Asynchronous Distributed Reference Counting	(abstract) (slides)
	Noam Rinetzky	Queen Mary University of London	Towards Temporal Verification of Hazard Pointers	(abstract)
	Alan Dearle	University of St Andrews	Strong Encapsulation, Threads,Channels, Components and Heaps - a Language-Oriented Strawman	(abstract) (slides)
1530-1600 Break: Coffee and refreshments
1600-1700 Topic: Empirical Studies. Session Chair: Alan Mycroft
	Laurence Hellyer	University of Kent	The Locality of Concurrent Write Barriers	(abstract) (slides)
	Richard Jones	University of Kent	The Economics of Garbage Collection	(abstract) (slides)

Light refreshments will be provided during workshop breaks, although we are unable to provide main meals. There are several food outlets nearby. Further information will be available on the day.

Contact details

The MMMR workshop organizers are:

Email jsinger@cs.man.ac.uk for further information.