Tapir wins best paper at PPoPP

Four papers were nominated for the best paper award at PPoPP 2017:

• Pagoda: Fine-Grained GPU Resource Virtualization for Narrow Tasks

• Groute: An Asynchronous Multi-GPU Programming Model for Irregular Computations

• Tapir: Embedding Fork-Join Parallelism into LLVM’s Intermediate Representation

• A Multicore Path to Connectomics-on-Demand

All four papers were presented on the second day of the main program. The best paper award was announced the following day, at the conclusion of the conference.

Congratulations to the authors, Tao B. Schardl, William S. Moses, and Charles E. Leiserson!

This work on Tapir was previously covered by the MIT News Office here. You can access the PPoPP paper itself here.