3rd Workshop on Managed Runtime Environments MRE'05

Sunday, March 20, 2005

Hotel Valencia Santana Row, San Jose, California

in conjunction with the
IEEE/ACM
International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO'05)

Advanced Program

• Ben Zorn, Microsoft Research, Execution Environments for Building Dependable Systems
• Evelyn Duesterwald, IBM Research, A Framework for Continuous Program Optimization

Objective

Managed runtime environments (which include, but are not limited to, virtual machines) bring higher level abstractions to software design and enable new classes of applications. Many applications are being developed for managed environments, and it is increasingly important that architectures, compilers, operating systems, and runtime systems are well adapted for these different workloads. The goals of this one-day workshop are two-fold: first, we want to better understand what these new workloads look like as managed applications are developed and, second, we want to investigate design and implementation strategies that optimize the execution of these workloads.

In this workshop, we seek to bring together diverse participants who are building the latest managed code applications, and designing and implementing the hardware, operating systems, and managed runtimes that execute these applications.  We encourage active participation from processor architects, system architects, operating systems designers, virtual machine architects, compiler writers, performance analysts, and developers.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to)

• Characterization of Java and .Net applications and runtime environments
• Characterization of environments involving a mix of managed and unmanaged applications
• Characterization of runtime interaction among the OS, VM, and memory system
• Characterization of runtime libraries and their impact on behavior and performance
• Effects of architectural features on workload behavior and architecture enhancements for managed code execution
• Characterization of memory access and allocation patterns, heap structure and usage, and garbage collection techniques
• Emerging benchmarks of managed applications, including classes of applications ranging from clients, servers, embedded and real-time systems
• Profiling methods and tools for measuring, understanding, and optimizing the behavior of managed applications
• Online feedback-directed optimizations and adaptive optimization strategies
• Measurements and techniques for identifying bottlenecks in managed applications, especially through multiple abstraction layers
• Implications of security, distribution, and concurrency on managed code system behavior and design
• Impact of optimizations on managed workloads

Previous MRE Workshops

• MRE'03
• MRE'04

Program Committee

• Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, Intel
• Cliff Click, Azul Systems
• Lieven Eeckhout, Ghent University
• David Grove, co-chair, IBM Research
• Michael Hind, co-chair, IBM Research
• Chris Newburn, Intel
• Jim Smith, University of Wisconsin
• Mary Lou Soffa, University of Virginia
• Bjarne Steensgaard, Microsoft Research