PLDI 2001 Birds-of-a-Feather Session on using Jalapeño as a Research Infrastructure

PLDI 2001: Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) on

Using Jalapeño as a Research VM

Overview: As the popularity of Java continues to grow, many academic researchers continue to explore Java virtual machine and compiler implementation issues. Java has emerged as a popular target for programming language and systems research into dynamic and adaptive optimizations, memory management, persistence, scalability, and myriad other topics. In many cases, this systems research requires a substantial software infrastructure to prove credible results. Building such an infrastructure exceeds the resources of most academic research projects.

Over the past few years, IBM Research has developed Jalapeño, a state-of-the-art research VM infrastructure. Jalapeño is written in Java, and was designed explicitly for extensibility to allow apples-to-apples research comparisons in evaluating new programming language technologies. Over the past few years, the Jalapeño infrastructure has provided the underlying infrastructure for numerous studies published in top programming language conferences. Starting in January 2001, IBM has made full source for Jalapeño available to academic universities. So far, close to a dozen universities have acquired source access and several more are considering using Jalapeño.

This "Birds-of-a-Feather" session will provide an informal meeting for academic researchers currently using, or interested in using, Jalapeño, and some Jalapeño developers. The session will address the following questions:

What is Jalapeño?
Why should I use it as a research infrastructure?
How can I get it?
Who is currently using it?
What are the current research uses?

Details:

Date: Thursday, June 21
Time: 7PM - 8PM
Place: TBD (at conference hotel)

In addition to a brief overview of Jalapeño and a "Questions and Answers" session, we also plan to have some of the current academic users of Jalapeño give brief summaries of their experiences using the system.

If you are interested in attending this BoF, please send e-mail to the organizers. If you have specific questions that you would to be addressed at the BoF, please send them as well.

Organizers: