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TUCS GP Student Petter Sandvik's Travel Report from UPMARC Summer School 2012
- Full name of the event: UPMARC Multicore Computing Summer School 2012
- Place and date: Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, June 18th–20th 2012
- Type of event: Summer school
- The scientific profile of the event: The objective of the school is to offer insight into emerging technologies, industrial applications, and tutorials on programming for multicore architectures and the push towards ubiquitous parallel platforms. The theme of UPMARC Summer School this year was "Dependability and Reliability in Shared-Memory Parallel Programming". There were six different lecturers in total, four of which were from academia and held multiple long sessions each, and two with industrial connections giving shorter talks.
- Opinion on the best paper and its topic: I really enjoyed Gernot Heiser's four sessions on "How to build a truly dependable system", in which he described the development of a formally verified microkernel.
- Number of participants: 65
- Social events: Apart from the lunches, there were two dinners. The first one was a three-course dinner at one of the student nations. Before this dinner there was a guided tour of the historical parts of the city. For the second dinner, a bus trip to the viking burial mounds at Old Uppsala was organised, and there we had a buffet dinner at a viking themed restaurant.
- Touristic impressions: I have visited Uppsala before, and there was not much free time to explore the city itself. However, on the day between the conference in Stockholm and the start of the summer school in Uppsala I spent the afternoon on a trip with the steam train from Uppsala to Länna and back, passing very nice scenery on the way.