Final Program

4th Workshop on Binary Translation
WBT-2002

September 22, 2002, Morning

Omni Charlottesville Hotel
235 W. Main St.
Charlottesville, VA

This year's keynote speaker will be Alasdair Rawsthorne Founder and Chief Technical Officer of Transitive Technologies.

Binary translation and optimization have reached a high profile in the research community in recent years, and a consensus is growing among researchers that the technology has a valuable part to play in the creation of future computing systems, whether in a revised structuring of existing run-time software interfaces, or as a component in the design of future CPUs. The number of commercial deployments of these technologies, however, has lagged this enthusiasm. In this keynote, I will describe some experiences gained in Transitive Technologies, which is commercializing machine-independent dynamic binary translation and optimization technology.

Stephen Fink from IBM T.J. Watson Research Center will provide an invited talk on:

This talk will present an overview of the Jikes Research Virtual Machine(RVM), an open source VM for Java from the Jalapeņo project at IBM. The Jikes RVM provides a flexible open testbed to prototype new virtual machine technologies. The system includes state-of-the-art techniques for dynamic compilation, adaptive optimization, garbage collection, thread scheduling, and synchronization. The system is implemented in the Java programming language and is self-hosted i.e., its Java code runs on itself without requiring a second virtual machine. The system runs on Linux/IA-32, AIX/PowerPC, and Linux/PowerPC platforms.

In the first ten months since its open source release, the system was downloaded by over 1,500 different sites. Academic researchers using the system have published over fifteen papers in leading conferences in 2002. Three professors have used the system to teach courses.

This presentation will highlight various components of the Jikes RVM, and focus on results from the adaptive optimization system, which uses on-line profile data to guide selective optimization and feedback-directed optimizations.

Stephen Fink is a Research Staff Member at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. His recent research focuses on virtual machine and optimizing compiler technology, with emphasis on adaptive and on-line optimization. He is one of the main contributors to the open-source Jikes Research Virtual Machine, developed by Jalapeno project at IBM. Dr. Fink received the B.S. degree from Duke University, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of San Diego, California. His other research interests include parallel and scientific computation, and Java enterprise software technology.

Final Program

Introduction and Keynote (8:30 ~ 9:45am)

Keynote Talk: ``Commercializing Binary Translation''
Alasdair Rawsthorne CTO, Transitive Technologies

Session A (9:45 ~ 10:35)

DIOTA: Dynamic Instrumentation, Optimization and Translation of Applications
Jonas Maebe, Michiel Ronsse and Koen De Bosschere Ghent University

Detecting Memory Performance Bottlenecks via Binary Rewriting
Jaydeep Marathe and Frank Mueller North Carolina State University

Break (10:35 ~ 11:00)

Session B (11:00 ~ 11:50)

Walkabout - A Retargetable Dynamic Binary Translation Framework
Cristina Cifuentes, Brian Lewis and David Ung Sun Microsystems

Fast Dynamic Binary Translation - The Yirr-Ma Framework
Jens Troger and John Gough Queensland University of Technology

Invited Talk (11:50 ~ 12:30)

Invited Talk: "Adaptive Optimization in the Jikes RVM"
Stephen Fink, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY

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