"What's Cool about Fortress"
Talk by: Guy L. Steele Jr., Sun Fellow, Sun Microsystems Laboratories
The Fortress programming language is now catching on outside of Sun.
During 2004-2006 it was an internal research project, funded in part
by Sun's contract with DARPA for High Productivity Computer Systems.
In January 2007 it became an open-source project with an open-source
community. People outside Sun are now writing Fortress code and
testing it using the open-source Fortress interpreter. In this talk
we will discuss some of the recent activity in this community as well
as features of Fortress that have made it so appealing. While the
language design was originally aimed at high-end ("petascale")
parallel supercomputers, it appears also to be well-suited for
programming multicore chip and multicore cluster systems.
This joint meeting of the GBC/ACM and the IEEE Computer Society will
be held in the MIT Media Lab Bartos Auditorium (MIT room E15-070) on
Thursday, September 20th from 7-9PM.
Additional information can be found at:
http://www.gbcacm.org/website/semInfo.php?id=1137
and
http://ieeeboston.org/computer_society.htm
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