Welcome Remarks

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Welcome Remarks

• Ravi Rajwar
• Workshop on Transactional Memory Systems
• Chicago, April 8, 2005

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Goals of the workshop

• How to make transactions a reality?
• MT software usage models
• MT software expectations and requirements
• interfaces
• Start a dialogue
• h/w community informs s/w community
• s/w community tells h/w community
• Understand the issues
• agree on issues and problems
• controversy is good and encouraged

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NOT the focus of this workshop

• My h/w can beat up your h/w
• My s/w can beat up your s/w
• My s/w can beat up your h/w
• My h/w can beat up your s/w

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Format

• 10 minute talks STRICTLY enforced
• un-interrupted, keep questions for discussion
• Discussions are CRITICAL
• encourage all to participate
• session chairs will control rat holes
• includes dedicated session
• continue discussions from earlier sessions
• other participant issues
• Fill up sheet

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Participant profiles

• Total 35
• Affiliation (16 institutions/companies)
• Industry 16
• Academia 19
• Area
• Architecture reps 12
• Software 18
• Systems3
• Formal 2
• 3 Jims, 3 Marks, 2 Davids

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Agenda

• 0730 to 0800 BREAKFAST
• 0800 to 0815 Welcome Remarks
• 0815 to 0845 Hardware Transactions Overview
• 0845 to 0945 Software with Transactions   
• 0945 to 1000 BREAK
• 1000 to 1100 Software Transactional
  Abstractions  
• 1100 to 1200 Software Transactional Methods
• 1200 to 1230 BOXED LUNCH
• 1230 to 1330 Transactions and Operating
  Systems/Other issues
• 1330 to 1430 Open Discussion on Potpourri
  Issues
• 1430 to 1445 BREAK
• 1445 to 1545  "WHAT IS THE S/W RESEARCH
  AGENDA?"
• 1545 to 1630 Where do we go from here?