Title: Shenandoah - Project overview Abstract: Garbage Collection pauses make it hard for Java applications to meet quality of service guarantees. No matter how fast your application processes requests, a 30 second GC pause is going to ruin any guarantees you might want to make. Shenandoah is a new GC algorithm designed to address this issue. We take a simple approach that allows us to do more work while your Java program is running so we can substantially reduce the time the JVM is paused. Our goal is to be able to garbage collect 100gb+ heaps in under 10ms. This talk will focus on the current status of the project, the goals we've met so far, and what we are hoping to achieve in the coming year. We might even share some performance numbers. Speakers: Christine H. Flood, Roman Kennke, Red Hat Inc. Christine H, Flood was part of the design team that brought you G1 and the parallel collector. She has 20+ years experience in programming language design and implementation. She's thrilled to be working for Red Hat on free and open software. Roman Kennke is a long time free Java (and Software) activist, originally involved in GNU Classpath since 2004, later participated in opening OpenJDK and since then is regular contributor to several parts of OpenJDK (AWT/Swing, general class library, lately Hotspot). After finishing Diploma in 2007 he was employed by aicas, who are building a hard realtime capable Java VM. During 2009 and 2010 worked for Sun Microsystems on Java Webstart. After a short period as contractor for JP Morgan, he's now a Prinipal Software Engineer at Red Hat, where he used to work on Thermostat, the Zero and Shark port of OpenJDK, and currently on the Shenandoah GC.