In October, the TornadoVM team from UNIMAN gave two talks at Devoxx Belgium!  The first talk was a deep dive on TornadoVM, explaining the programming model, the API and the TornadoVM tool ecosystem! The video of the deep dive is available on YouTube. Devoxx Link  The second talk included a live coding demo by Michalis […]

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 […]