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Project Fortress: Run your whiteboard, in parallel, on the JVM

Presented by David Chase on Jan 23, 2009 Length 00:20:34
Sections
Development,
Architecture & Design
Topics
Research ,
Java ,
Programming
Tags
Fortress ,
Continuations ,
JVM Language Summit ,
JVM ,
Transactions ,
Work Stealing
 

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Summary
In this presentation from the JVM Languages Summit 2008, David Chase discusses Fortress, a Fortran-based highly parallel programming language. Topics covered include the origins of Fortress, mathematical syntax, the challenges of running on the JVM, parsing, work stealing, transactions, continuations, problems with blocking, the type system, type mapping, multiple dispatch and profiling.

Bio
David Chase works in the Programming Languages Research Group. Most of his time is spent on HPCS work; some of that takes the form of short notes. Chase is a big fan of language safety and high performance. He feels HPCS presents interesting problems in the design of "virtual machines" (interpreted generally, not narrowly) that hide and/or abstract away failure.

About the conference
The 2008 JVM Language Summit is an open technical collaboration among language designers, compiler writers, tool builders, runtime engineers, and VM architects. The talks inform the audience, in detail, about the state of the art of language design and implementation on the JVM, and the present and future capabilities of the JVM itself.
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    Slide talk synchronization issue

    by Khalil Bouhamza

    Firstly big thanks for covering the JVM summit, bringing a very rich and intersesting content. Now to the issue I am currently experiencing: Slide show and video content de-synchronize on slide 11, and for the rest of the talk, David Chase is refering to the previous slide which makes the presentation a bit hard to follow, could you please fix it.

    Cheers,
    Khalil

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    wrong length

    by George Solodovnikov

    The Length of the talk is not 00:20:34
    Cheers

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