Principles and Practices of Building Parallel Software

This Festschrift celebrates the career of Vivek Sarkar, a pioneer who has influenced research into programming languages, compilers, runtime systems, and debugging and verification systems for high-performance computers. After foundational Ph.D. work at Stanford University under the mentorship of John L. Hennessy, Vivek joined IBM, where he contributed to the PTRAN Project, he led the design and implementation of the ASTI optimizer for the XL compiler, the design of the X10 programming language,