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ICFP 2016
Sun 18 - Sat 24 September 2016 Nara, Japan
Thu 22 Sep 2016 09:15 - 10:15 at Conference Room 2 - Invited Talk Chair(s): Yukiyoshi Kameyama

Although now parallel computing is very common, current parallel programming methods tend to be domain-specific (specializing in certain program patterns such as nested loops) and/or manual (programmers need to specify independent tasks). This situation poses a serious difficulty in developing efficient parallel programs. We often need to manually transform codes written in usual programming patterns to ones in a parallelizable form. We hope to have a solid foundation to streamline this transformation. This talk first reviews necessity of a method of systematically deriving parallelizable codes and then introduces an ongoing work on extending lambda calculus for the purpose. The distinguished feature of the new calculus is a special construct that enable evaluation with incomplete information, which is useful to express important parallel computation patterns such as reductions (aggregations). We then investigate derivations of parallelizable codes as transformations on the calculus.

Thu 22 Sep

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09:15 - 10:15
Invited TalkFHPC at Conference Room 2
Chair(s): Yukiyoshi Kameyama University of Tsukuba
09:15
60m
Talk
From Identification of Parallelizability to Derivation of Parallelizable Codes
FHPC
Akimasa Morihata University of Tokyo, Japan