TRANSACT 2009 4 th ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on

TRANSACT 2009 4 th ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Transactional Computing February 15, 2009 Dan Grossman Program Chair 15 February 2009 TRANSACT 2009 Welcome: Dan Grossman

Welcome! • Vibrant venue bringing together “transactions researchers” – Full range: theory, semantics, benchmarks, hw, sw, … • Follows 3 successful prior workshops – PPo. PP 2008, PODC 2007, PLDI 2006 • Strong submissions means a pretty packed program – 15 talks at 20 minutes + 5 minute discussion – But didn’t skimp on breaks: want an active workshop • A little on submission data, logistics, etc. before we start… 15 February 2009 TRANSACT 2009 Welcome: Dan Grossman 2

Growing interest 15 February 2009 TRANSACT 2009 Welcome: Dan Grossman 3

Who submitted Note: Did not ask for “topic area” Note: Numbers exceed 38 due to co-authorship Industry: 14 Academia: 27 United States: 20 Germany: 3 India: 3 Switzerland: 3 Canada: 2 England: 2 Israel: 2 Spain: 2 15 February 2009 Belgium: 1 China: 1 The Netherlands: 1 New Zealand: 1 Portugal: 1 Turkey: 1 TRANSACT 2009 Welcome: Dan Grossman 4

Program selection • Each paper reviewed by 3 PC members – Plus 24 external reviews (folded in) • One week on-line discussion – Message board for each paper – Worked well: thoughtful, led to consensus • No room for many strong submissions • PC submissions held to a higher standard – 3 accepted out of 6 15 February 2009 TRANSACT 2009 Welcome: Dan Grossman 5

Papers “It is the expressed intent of the organizers to avoid any obstacle to subsequent publication of presented work in other refereed forums” • Informal program includes copies of papers – This is not a publication • Workshop website http: //transact 09. cs. washington. edu has copies of most papers (author preference) – This is not a publication 15 February 2009 TRANSACT 2009 Welcome: Dan Grossman 6

Thank you! General Chair: Craig Zilles Program Committee: Hans-J. Boehm Sandhya Dwarkadas Faith Ellen Rob Ennals Christof Fetzer Milo Martin Tom Henzinger Maged Michael Mark Moir Kevin Moore Tatiana Shpeisman Michael Swift Serdar Tasiran Michal Young 15 February 2009 Steering Committee: Babak Falsafi Pascal Felber Rachid Guerraoui Tim Harris Maurice Herlihy Tony Hosking Suresh Jagannathan Doug Lea Maged Michael Eliot Moss Michael Scott Jan Vitek TRANSACT 2009 Welcome: Dan Grossman 7

Feedback? How can we make TRANSACT better? What’s working? What’s not? Let me or a Steering Committee member know – Today – Or by email 15 February 2009 TRANSACT 2009 Welcome: Dan Grossman 8

Logistics / Schedule Full schedule is in your program Session 1: 8: 30 -10: 10 Break: 10 -10: 40 Session 2: 10: 40 -Noon Lunch: Noon-1: 00 Session 3: 1: 00 -2: 40 Break: 2: 40 -3: 10 Session 4: 3: 10 -5: 00 15 February 2009 (Craig Zilles) (Michael Swift) (Tatiana Shpeisman) (Milo Martin) TRANSACT 2009 Welcome: Dan Grossman 9