Invitational Workshop on the Future of Virtual Execution Environments

hosted by IBM Research

IBM Learning Center
Armonk, New York

September 15-17, 2004

Talk Summaries
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Day 1
  • Bob Blainey, Virtual Execution Environments: Challenges and Opportunities
    Slides, Video: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 + Discussion, part 1, Discussion, part 2

  • Vikram Adve, A Case for Virtual Instruction Set Computers
    Slides, Video: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 + Discussion

  • Hans Boehm, Costs and benefits of nonconformity
    Slides, Video: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 + Discussion

  • Jeremy Hylton, Python implementation strategies
    Slides, Video: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 + Discussion

  • Michael Hind, Debunking Dynamic Optimization Myths
    Slides, Video: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 + Discussion

  • Ben Zorn, Thoughts on the Future of Runtime Systems
    Slides, Video: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 + Discussion

  • David Grove, Parley: Federated Virtual Machines
    Slides, Video: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 + Discussion

  • Paolo Molaro, Mono's progress and future roadmap
    Slides, Video: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 + Initial Discussion, Further Discussion
    Due to recording complications, some of the discussion between Part 3 and Part 4 was not recording.

  • Doug Lea, Concurrency: where to draw the lines
    Slides, Video: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 + Discussion

  • Jim Kleewein, On the need for data management primitives in a VEE
    Slides, Video: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 + Discussion

    • Day 2
  • Day 2 Introduction and Day 1 Discussions
    Video:     Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

  • Bob Vandette, Evolution of Virtual Machine Technologies for Portability and Application Capture
    Slides, Video: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 + Discussion

  • Andrew Appel, Assuring Software Protection in Virtual Machines
    Slides, Video: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 + Discussion

  • Evelyn Duesterwald, Vertical Performance and Environment Monitoring for Continuous Program Optimization
    Slides, Video: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Discussion

  • Ian Piumarta, Late Binding and Dynamic Implementation
    Slides, Video: Part 1 (started late), Part 2, Part 3 + Discussion

  • Kari Systa, Requirements and Issues of VXE's for Mobile Terminals
    Slides, Video: Part 1 (started late), Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 + Discussion

  • Christoph Rohland, Experiences in using Virtual Machines for Standard application development
    Slides, Video: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 + Discussion

  • Joakim Dahlstedt, Where JRockit is going - Speed Simplified
    Slides, Video: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 + Discussion

  • Mendel Rosenblum, Virtual Machine Monitors - The Original Virtual Execution Environment
    Slides, Video: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 + Discussion, Further Discussion

  • Cliff Click, Scaling Up with the Azul JVM
    Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 + Discussion

  • Suresh Srinivas, Modularity, Hardware based Profiling, and Mixed ISA Execution within Managed Runtimes
    Slides, Video: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 + Discussion

  • Vivek Sarkar, Language and Virtual Machine Challenges for Large-Scale Parallel Systems
    Slides, Video: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 + Discussion

  • Armin Rigo, The PyPy approach to virtual machines
    Slides, Video: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 + Discussion

  • David Chase, Unsafe extensions as a VM feature
    Slides, Video: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 + Discussion

    • Day 3
  • Brendan Eich, Mozilla's products and platform needs from a VEE.
    Slides, Video: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 + Discussion

  • David F. Bacon, Realtime Garbage Collection
    Slides, Video: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 + Discussion

  • Michael Franz, VEE - Verify Everything, Everytime
    Slides, Video: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 + Discussion

  • Dan Sugalski, Handing Out New Toys
    Slides, Video: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 + Discussion, Further Discussion

  • Bob Blainey,Workshop summary and discussion
    Slides, Video: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6