8. PPOPP 2001: Snowbird, Utah, USA

Opening Plenary

• Ian T. Foster:
  Parallel computing in 2010: opportunities and challenges in a networked world (abstract). 1
  

Compilation

• Seon Wook Kim, Chong-liang Ooi, Rudolf Eigenmann, Babak Falsafi, T. N. Vijaykumar:
  Reference idempotency analysis: a framework for optimizing speculative execution. 2-11
  
• Alexandru Salcianu, Martin C. Rinard:
  Pointer and escape analysis for multithreaded programs. 12-23
  
• David S. Wise, Jeremy D. Frens, Yuhong Gu, Gregory A. Alexander:
  Language support for Morton-order matrices. 24-33
  

Runtime Toole and Techniques

• Rob van Nieuwpoort, Thilo Kielmann, Henri E. Bal:
  Efficient load balancing for wide-area divide-and-conquer applications. 34-43
  
• Michael L. Scott, William N. Scherer III:
  Scalable queue-based spin locks with timeout. 44-52
  
• Honghui Lu, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel:
  Contention elimination by replication of sequential sections in distributed shared memory programs. 53-61
  

Parallel Environments

• Donald G. Morris, David K. Lowenthal:
  Accurate data redistribution cost estimation in software distributed shared memory systems. 62-71
  
• Umit Rencuzogullari, Sandhya Dwarkadas:
  Dynamic adaptation to available resources for parallel computing in an autonomous network of workstations. 72-81
  

Plenary Talk

• Andrew A. Chien:
  Parallel programming challenges for Internet-scale computing (entropia). 82
  

Optimization

• Ronald Veldema, Rutger F. H. Hofman, Raoul Bhoedjang, Ceriel J. H. Jacobs, Henri E. Bal:
  Source-level global optimizations for fine-grain distributed shared memory systems. 83-92
  
• Michael Voss, Rudolf Eigenmann:
  High-level adaptive program optimization with ADAPT. 93-102
  
• Amy W. Lim, Shih-Wei Liao, Monica S. Lam:
  Blocking and array contraction across arbitrarily nested loops using affine partitioning. 103-112
  

Performance Analysis

• Enrique V. Carrera, Ricardo Bianchini:
  Efficiency vs. portability in cluster-based network servers. 113-122
  
• Jeffrey S. Vetter, Michael O. McCracken:
  Statistical scalability analysis of communication operations in distributed applications. 123-132
  
• Fumihiko Ino, Noriyuki Fujimoto, Kenichi Hagihara:
  LogGPS: a parallel computational model for synchronization analysis. 133-142
  

Closing Plenary

• David J. Kuck:
  Peer to peer and distributed computing (abstract). 143