1. TRANSACT2009 4 th ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Transactional Computing February 15, 2009 Dan Grossman Program Chair

2. 15 February 2009TRANSACT 2009 Welcome: Dan Grossman2 Welcome! Vibrant venue bringing together “transactions researchers” –Full range: theory, semantics, benchmarks, hw, sw, … Follows 3 successful prior workshops –PPoPP 2008, PODC 2007, PLDI 2006 Strong submissions means a pretty packed program –15 talks at 20 minutes + 5 minute discussion –But didn’t skimp on breaks: want an active workshop A little on submission data, logistics, etc. before we start…

3. 15 February 2009TRANSACT 2009 Welcome: Dan Grossman3 Growing interest

4. 15 February 2009TRANSACT 2009 Welcome: Dan Grossman4 Who submitted Note: Did not ask for “topic area” Note: Numbers exceed 38 due to co-authorship Industry: 14 Academia: 27 United States: 20Belgium: 1 Germany: 3China: 1 India: 3The Netherlands: 1 Switzerland: 3 New Zealand: 1 Canada: 2Portugal: 1 England: 2Turkey: 1 Israel: 2 Spain: 2

5. 15 February 2009TRANSACT 2009 Welcome: Dan Grossman5 Program selection Each paper reviewed by 3 PC members –Plus 24 external reviews (folded in) One week on-line discussion –Message board for each paper –Worked well: thoughtful, led to consensus No room for many strong submissions PC submissions held to a higher standard –3 accepted out of 6

6. 15 February 2009TRANSACT 2009 Welcome: Dan Grossman6 Papers “It is the expressed intent of the organizers to avoid any obstacle to subsequent publication of presented work in other refereed forums” Informal program includes copies of papers –This is not a publication Workshop website http://transact09.cs.washington.edu has copies of most papers (author preference) –This is not a publication

7. 15 February 2009TRANSACT 2009 Welcome: Dan Grossman7 Thank you! General Chair: Craig Zilles Program Committee: Hans-J. Boehm Sandhya Dwarkadas Faith Ellen Rob Ennals Christof Fetzer Milo Martin Tom Henzinger Maged Michael Mark Moir Kevin Moore Tatiana Shpeisman Michael Swift Serdar Tasiran Michal Young Steering Committee: Babak Falsafi Pascal Felber Rachid Guerraoui Tim Harris Maurice Herlihy Tony Hosking Suresh Jagannathan Doug Lea Maged Michael Eliot Moss Michael Scott Jan Vitek

8. 15 February 2009TRANSACT 2009 Welcome: Dan Grossman8 Feedback? How can we make TRANSACT better? What’s working? What’s not? Let me or a Steering Committee member know –Today –Or by email

9. 15 February 2009TRANSACT 2009 Welcome: Dan Grossman9 Logistics / Schedule Full schedule is in your program Session 1: 8:30-10:10 (Craig Zilles) Break: 10:10-10:40 Session 2: 10:40-Noon (Michael Swift) Lunch: Noon-1:00 Session 3: 1:00-2:40 (Tatiana Shpeisman) Break: 2:40-3:10 Session 4: 3:10-5:00 (Milo Martin)