Objective Major chip manufacturers have shifted their focus from trying to speed up individual processors into putting several processors on the same chip. They are now talking about potentially doubling efficiency on a 2x core, quadrupling on a 4x core and so forth. Yet multicore is useless without concurrent programming. The constructors are now calling for a new software revolution: the concurrency revolution. This might look at first glance surprising for concurrency is almost as old as computing and tons of concurrent programming models and languages were invented. In fact, what the revolution is about is way more than concurrency alone: it is about concurrency for the masses. The current parallel programming approach of employing locks is widely considered to be too difficult for any but a few experts. Therefore, a new paradigm of concurrent programming is needed to take advantage of the new regime of multicore computers. Transactional Memory (TM) is a new programming paradigm which is considered by most researchers as the future of parallel programming. Not surprisingly, a lot of work is being devoted to the implementation of TM systems, in hardware or solely in software. What might be surprising is the little effort devoted so far to devising a sound theoretical framework to reason about the TM abstraction. To understand properly TM systems, as well as be able to assess them and improve them, a rigorous theoretical study of the approach, its challenges and its benefits is badly needed. This is the challenging research goal undertaken by this MC-ITN. Our goal through this project is to gather leading researchers in the field of concurrent computing over Europe, and combine our efforts in order to define what might become the modern theory of concurrent computing. We aim at training a set of graduate students in this direction and hope that, in turn, these students will help Europe become a leader in concurrent computing. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresocial sciencespolitical sciencespolitical transitionsrevolutions Keywords Technological sciences Programme(s) FP7-PEOPLE - Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) Topic(s) FP7-PEOPLE-ITN-2008 - Marie Curie Action: "Networks for Initial Training" Call for proposal FP7-PEOPLE-ITN-2008 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme MC-ITN - Networks for Initial Training (ITN) Coordinator IDRYMA TECHNOLOGIAS KAI EREVNAS EU contribution € 436 638,50 Address N PLASTIRA STR 100 70013 Irakleio Greece See on map Region Νησιά Αιγαίου Κρήτη Ηράκλειο Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Zinovia Papatheodorou (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (4) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all UNIVERSITE DE RENNES I France EU contribution € 425 329,70 Address RUE DU THABOR 2 35065 RENNES CEDEX See on map Region Bretagne Bretagne Ille-et-Vilaine Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Yolaine Bompays (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE Switzerland EU contribution € 482 063,70 Address BATIMENT CE 3316 STATION 1 1015 Lausanne See on map Region Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera Région lémanique Vaud Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Martin Rajman (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT BERLIN Germany EU contribution € 245 408,90 Address STRASSE DES 17 JUNI 135 10623 Berlin See on map Region Berlin Berlin Berlin Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Simone Ludwig (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data TECHNION - ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Israel EU contribution € 440 861,20 Address SENATE BUILDING TECHNION CITY 32000 Haifa See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Davison Mark (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data
