- From: <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 16:16:01 -0400
- To: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
Dan Conolly wrote: > I mentioned this talk; you asked for a pointer an noted work by > Dave Patterson at Berkeley. > I found his homepage http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Faculty/ > Homepages/patterson.html > but I don't see any articles that explain his thinking. Care > to nominate anything in particular? I'm not finding anything that would qualify as a detailed research contribution, but there's lots of high-level stuff to confirm that he's been trying to get the CS community focused on parallel as the next grand challenge. See, e.g. [1-3]. I also stumbled on the publication list at [5], but haven't followed any of the references. Noah [1] http://www.cra.org/ccc/docs/Patterson_CCC.pdf [2] http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/1570000/1562783/p56-asanovic.pdf?key1=1562783&key2=9138940721&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=82997540&CFTOKEN=70206281 [3] http://www.sysmannews.com/%28S%281t2zt245suluro45p5rrslyo%29%29/SearchResult/32043 [4] http://imprint.uwaterloo.ca/index.php?id=1736&task=view&option=com_content&Itemid=59 [5] http://parlab.eecs.berkeley.edu/wiki/pallas/publication_list -------------------------------------- Noah Mendelsohn IBM Corporation One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 1-617-693-4036 -------------------------------------- Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org> 04/05/2010 03:31 PM To: noah_mendelsohn <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com> cc: www-tag@w3.org Subject: Guy Steele's talk on using trees rather than lists for parallel performance Noah, I mentioned this talk; you asked for a pointer an noted work by Dave Patterson at Berkeley. I found his homepage http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Faculty/Homepages/patterson.html but I don't see any articles that explain his thinking. Care to nominate anything in particular? Guy Steele Organizing Functional Code for Parallel Execution: or, foldl and foldr Considered Slightly Harmful (video) http://www.vimeo.com/6624203 (slides) http://research.sun.com/projects/plrg/Publications/ICFPAugust2009Steele.pdf (bookmarked under http://delicious.com/connolly/performance ) venue/event: The 14th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP 2009) Edinburgh, Scotland 31st August - 2nd September 2009 http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/icfp09.html -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/ gpg D3C2 887B 0F92 6005 C541 0875 0F91 96DE 6E52 C29E
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