The Chapel Parallel Programming Language

We are pleased to announce the Fourth Annual Chapel Lightning Talks Birds-of-a-Feather session at SC14 this November. The BoF is designed to highlight interesting work being done in or around Chapel across the broad community: research collaborations, use of Chapel in education, application studies, supporting technologies, etc.

As in previous years, we anticipate having ~6 talks @ 5 minutes each as the core of the session. We'll start with a brief overview of the Chapel project to provide context for the talks (also limited to 5 minutes) and will wrap up with a Q&A session involving all the speakers.

To propose a talk, please send the following information to chapel_submissions@cray.com by October 10th:

• a proposed title
• a paragraph summarizing what you'd cover in your 5 minutes
• a short speaker bio
• (optional, but recommended) sample slides from previous talks demonstrating that you can create engaging slides; or that you've presented a short, lightning-style talk before. (Note that these can be from any technical talk or lecture; they don't need to be related to your proposed topic in any way).

From the submissions, the organizers will curate a program for the BoF, attempting to emphasize diverse and novel work. We will strive to prioritize new work relative to the previous lightning talks BoFs, though speakers from previous years are definitely encouraged to submit a talk that highlights new work or progress.

Key Dates:

• October 10th: submissions due
• October 24th: author notification
• November 18th: Chapel Lightning Talks BoF @ SC14

BoF Organizers:

• Richard Barrett, Sandia National Laboratories
• Sung-Eun Choi, Cray Inc.