Two talks: 1. Kenneth MacKenzie. Title: RELEASE: scaling to Erlang to 10,000 cores and beyond. Abstract Erlang is a well-known concurrency-oriented functional programming language which has been used to build large and highly-reliable distributed software systems. However, some difficulties arise on very large platforms; the RELEASE project aims to overcome these and enable Erlang to scale smoothly to systems involving many thousands of cores. I'll give an introduction to the basics of Erlang and then describe some of the scalability challenges that arise on large hardware systems, and how we're attempting to tackle them. No prior knowledge of Erlang will be assumed! http://www.release-project.eu/ 2. Mike Borozdin Title: Functional features in Java 8 Abstract Java 8 has many interesting new features. Undoubtedly, the most exciting one out of them is functional programming. In this talk, we will see practical examples of how functional programming features in Java 8 enable you to write code in a more concise and declarative manner. We will also cover the new functionality that makes it possible – Stream API, lambda expressions, default methods, and so on. |
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