[Swift-commit] r3912 - text/parco10submission

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Author: wilde
Date: 2011-01-08 18:29:03 -0600 (Sat, 08 Jan 2011)
New Revision: 3912

Modified:
   text/parco10submission/paper.tex
Log:
revised author list order and format; small changes to intro.

Modified: text/parco10submission/paper.tex
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--- text/parco10submission/paper.tex	2011-01-08 23:16:20 UTC (rev 3911)
+++ text/parco10submission/paper.tex	2011-01-09 00:29:03 UTC (rev 3912)
@@ -40,43 +40,20 @@
 
 \title{Swift: A language for distributed parallel scripting}
 
-% draft - contact benc at ci.uchicago.edu
+\author[ci,mcs]{Michael Wilde\corref{cor1}} \ead{wilde at mcs.anl.gov}
+\author[ci]{Mihael Hategan}
+\author[mcs]{Justin M. Wozniak}
+\author[alcf]{Ben Clifford}
+\author[ci]{Daniel S. Katz}
+\author[ci,mcs,cs]{Ian Foster}
+
+\cortext[cor1]{Corresponding author}
 
-% ACM styleguide says max 3 authors here, rest in acknowledgements
+\address[ci]{Computation Institute, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory}
+\address[mcs]{Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory}
+\address[alcf]{Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, Argonne National Laboratory }
+\address[cs]{Department of Computer Science, University of Chicago }
 
-%% \numberofauthors{4}
-
-%% \author{
-%% \alignauthor Ben Clifford  \\
-%%        \affaddr{University of Chicago Computation Institute}\\
-%%        \email{benc at ci.uchicago.edu}
-%% \alignauthor Ian Foster \\
-%%        \affaddr{University of Chicago Computation Institute}\\
-%%        \affaddr{Argonne National Laboratory}
-%% \alignauthor Mihael Hategan \\
-%%        \affaddr{University of Chicago Computation Institute}\\
-%% \and
-%% \alignauthor Michael Wilde \\
-%%        \affaddr{University of Chicago Computation Institute}\\
-%%        \affaddr{Argonne National Laboratory} \\
-%% }
-
-\author{Mihael Hategan}
-\author{Justin M. Wozniak}
-\author{Ian Foster}
-\author{Michael Wilde}
-
-\address{Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National
-  Laboratory, and Computation Institute, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory}
-
-\author{Daniel S. Katz}
-
-\address{Computation Institute, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory}
-
-\author{Ben Clifford}
-
-\address{Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, Argonne National Laboratory }
-
 \begin{abstract}
 
 Scientists, engineers and statisticians must often execute domain-specific application programs
@@ -119,12 +96,14 @@
 %written in other scripting languages.
 Unlike most other scripting languages, Swift %is a higher-level language that
 %IAN: I don't see what it means that Swift doesn't focus on details of executing scripts
-focuses not on the details of executing sequences or
-pipelines of scripts and programs, but rather on the issues that arise
-from the concurrent execution, composition, and coordination of many independent computational tasks.
+focuses % not on the details of executing sequences or
+% pipelines of scripts and programs, but rather
+on the issues that arise
+from the concurrent execution, composition, and coordination of many independent (and typically, distributed) computational tasks.
 %at large scale.
 %
-Swift scripts express the execution of programs that consume and produce datasets using a C-like syntax
+Swift scripts express the execution of programs that consume and produce file-resident datasets.
+Swift employs a C-like syntax
 consisting of function definitions and expressions, with
 dataflow-driven semantics and implicit parallelism.