Iacovos Kolokasis from FORTH presented their work-in-progress paper “SmartSweep” at MPLR 2025!  Big data frameworks (e.g., Spark, Neo4j) often extend the JVM heap into remote memory, but GC in this setting is a nightmare: high network traffic, delayed reclamation, and nasty OOM errors. 💡 SmartSweep tackles this head-on:⚡ Dual-heap design with approximate liveness info 🗑️ […]

Thanos Stratikopoulos from UNIMAN presented on 14th of October TornadoInsight at MPLR 2025, which was co-located with SPLASH!  TornadoInsight is an open-source IntelliJ IDEA plugin that streamlines development with TornadoVM by detecting incompatible Java constructs and providing immediate, source-linked feedback. By bridging the gap between Java’s high-level abstractions and low-level accelerator programming, TornadoInsight helps developers […]

On 14th of October, Michalis Papadimitriou from UNIMAN, presented their work on TornadoViz at MPLR 2025, which was co-located with SPLASH!  TornadoViz is a visual analytics tool that brings transparency to heterogeneous execution in Java applications. By leveraging TornadoVM’s specialized bytecode system, it bridges the gap between high-level application logic and low-level hardware behavior. With […]