Virtual Machine Meetup

Call for Participation at the VMM2016

The 3rd Virtual Machine Meetup (VMM '16) is a venue for discussing the latest research and developments in the area of managed language execution. It will be held on 1st and 2nd of September at the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Lugano, Switzerland and is part of the Managed Languages & Runtimes Week 2016 (http://manlang16.inf.usi.ch/, other colocated events are PPPJ '16 and JTRES '16, room Aula Magna from 9:30am - 5:30pm).

Preliminary Schedule

	Thursday, 1st of September	Friday, 2nd of September
09:30	Oracle Labs VM Research Overview Thomas Wuerthinger and Chris Seaton, Oracle	Shenandoah Garbage Collector Christine Flood, RedHat
10:10	Parallel Execution for RPython VMs Remi Meier, ETH Zurich	C, C++, and Fortran on the JVM via Sulong Manuel Rigger, JKU Linz
	Coffee Break
11:10	Actor Profiling on the JVM Andrea Rosa, USI Lugano	Lusagent: Dynamic Software Updating on Java Alex Neumann, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
11:50	Dotty, towards the better\faster\safer Scala Dmitry Petrashko, EPFL	Breaking Boundaries between Runtimes & DB Julien Lopez, University of Paris-Sud
	Lunch Break
14:30	Branch Pruning in the Firefox JIT Nicolas B. Pierron, Mozilla	RAPID Query Execution Nitin Kunal, Oracle Labs
15:10	One Compiler Christian Wimmer, Oracle Labs	Utilising Hardware Acceleration from Java James Clarkson, University of Manchester
	Coffee Break
16:10	Measuring JIT Compiler Improvements Petr Tuma, Charles University Prague	Energy-Efficient Managed Language Execution Shoaib Akram, Ghent University
16:50	Eclipse OMR JITBuilder for Better Performance Charlie Gracie, IBM Runtimes	Maxine on ZSim: HW/SW Co-design Research Andrey Rodchenko, University of Manchester

To participate, please email thomas.wuerthinger@oracle.com stating your wish to attend, and your name and affiliation as you wish to have them on your name badge. There are limited participant slots due to the constraints of the room, so please register early, and by July 27th the latest.

Important dates:

Registration for participation: July 27, 2016
Virtual machine Meetup: Sep 1st + 2nd 2016 at USI Lugano
Social Event: Sep 3rd 2016, optional

Program committee:

Stefan Marr, JKU Linz, Austria
Matthias Grimmer, JKU Linz, Austria
Laurence Tratt, King's College London
Thomas Wuerthinger, Oracle Labs Switzerland

As an optional social event, we will plan this year for Saturday the 3rd of September a trip to the Lake Como - a gorgeous lake in Italy close to Lugano. Please let us know whether you intend to participate for planning purposes.