llvm dev - Sep 2011 - [LLVMdev] 2011 LLVM Annual Developers' Meeting - Update

Registration for the 2011 LLVM Developer Meeting is now open:

	qcsurvey.qualcomm.com/survey.asp?pub=y&survey_id=7125

The attendance limit has been increased to 225 this year, but with the growing
interest in LLVM, registration will likely still fill up quickly; we encourage
you to register early.

The 2011 meeting will be held on Friday, November 18, 2011 at 

	San Jose Marriott
	301 South Market Street 
	San Jose, CA 95113
	USA

The Marriott is at the opposite end of the San Jose Convention Center from last
year's meeting; and should provide more space for this year's larger
meeting.

I'm happy to say that with the support of QuIC and Apple, we have again
avoided registration fees this year. Please register if you are fairly certain
that you will attend; but if you later find out that you are unable to attend,
please mail arlenr at qualcomm.com as soon as you know so that we can let
someone who is on the waitlist attend.

Apple has graciously offered to host this year's dinner. Details are
forthcoming but be sure to indicate that you will be attending the dinner on the
registration form to be assured a seat.

The registration form has a field for you to provide input on sessions or
suggestions for this year's meeting. Please give this some serious thought
and fill this field in.

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The LLVM Developers Meeting is a community event and broad participation is
essential. Your session proposals can be made at:

	www.llvm.org/devmtg/talk.php

If you are working on a novel use of LLVM, a new optimization, or a new target,
please share your experience with the community. Submitting a suggestion
proposal is very easy and takes only five minutes; but do it soon as the
September 15 the deadline is fast approaching.

Sponsorship may be available to speakers who require it. Please indicate your
need at:

	www.llvm.org/devmtg/sponsor.php

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A block of rooms have been reserved for attendees of this year's Developer
Meeting at a special rate of $179. I encourage you to take advantage of this
even if you are local in order to fully partake in the libation's that
certainly seemed to go into the late hours last year. Room reservations can be
made at

	resweb.passkey.com/go/LLVM

Summary:
- Registration filling up
- Dinner filling up faster
- Feedback from registration on technical program
	- *** Lightning Talks and Posters *** 
	- Topics attendees would like to see sessions on
- Session proposal deadline extended


Details:

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Registration:
There are about 100 seats left, after which a wait list will be created on a
first come basis.

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Dinner:
Space is limited for dinner, and there are about 40 seats left

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Lightning Talks and Posters:
Several requests have been made to have Posters and Lighting Talks. Lighting
Talks are ~5 minute topics which could be an advertisement for a poster later in
the day, or just to generate food for thought to be discussed during
breaks/BoFs/dinner. Submit your proposals for a lighting talk at
	www.llvm.org/devmtg/talk.php 
Be sure to include "lighting talk" in the description.

Submit a proposal for a poster at 
	www.llvm.org/devmtg/talk.php. 
We expect that some poster authors may be from university or the community, and
may need travel assistance. If so apply at www.llvm.org/devmtg/sponsor.php. I
will try my best to find sponsorship for interesting research or uses related to
LLVM family projects.

If there are enough quality proposals for Lighting Talks and/or Posters, we will
add sessions for this year's program.

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Leading session topics requested by the attendees first to register (of 49
responses):
	Optimizations (8)
		Code density, loop nest, roadmap, transformations	
			Vectorization/parallelization  (4)
	JIT (5)
		Compile time performance
		Code generation quality
		LLVM as a tier in a JIT compiler
		JIT on ARM
	Clang (4)
		"All things clang"
		Extending Clang parsing and types
	MC (3)
		Integrated assembler strategies
	OpenCL (3)
	Testing/Analysis/Debugging (3)
		Detecting memory errors and races using LLVM instrumentation
		llvm as a framework for code analysis and binary translation	Linker (2)
	C++ (2)
		C++11, Linux libc++ support
		C++ support in clang - compare with GCC C++
	bitcode (2)
		Bitcode portability/stability across releases
	GPU (2)
		GPU code generation
	SIMD (2)
	VLIW (2)
	Linux support (2)

Other topics suggested:
	Dynamic Languages build on top of Clang and LLVM
	Concurrency and atomics memory model
	Targeting a new processor cookbook
	Keeping PowerPC-Apple-Darwin/OSX target up-to-date
	LLVM compilation on/for iOS or Android devices.
	Compiling declarative languages with LLVM

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Session Proposals Deadline Extended:
This is your meeting, and it is important that you participate. There is clearly
many topics that attendees are interested in seeing; take this opportunity to
step up and share your experience. Propose a technical session at:
	www.llvm.org/devmtg/talk.php

Because of the broad session interest, and the potential lighting talks/posters
we have extend the session deadline to the end of the month.

Summary:
- Hacking session this year?
- 8 seats left
- Speakers can still get in 


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Hacking session?
One of the suggestions that I heard at the LLVM meeting in London, was to have a
hacking session before and/or after the Developer's Meeting in November. If
there is enough interest in this, I will arrange for meeting space and
networking.

If you would like to participate send mail directly to me, indicating which days
are preferable, and what you would like to work on (bugs, feature, target,
performance ...). I will start a thread between those who have expressed
interest.


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8 seats left
There are only about 8 seats left for this year's Developer's meeting,
so act fast before names start going on the wait list.
	qcsurvey.qualcomm.com/survey.asp?pub=y&survey_id=7125 


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Speaker proposals still being accepted
If you end up on the registration wait list, there is still one sure way to get
in - become a speaker. Submit your proposal here:
	www.llvm.org/devmtg/talk.php

This includes posters. Travel sponsorship may also be available:
	www.llvm.org/devmtg/sponsor.php