International Workshop on Runtime and Operating Systems for Supercomputers
*** ROSS 2012 ***

In cooperation with ACM SIGHPC
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Held in conjunction with ICS 2012, Venice, Italy, June 29, 2012

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http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/ross/2012/
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The complexity of node architectures in supercomputers increases as we
cross petaflop milestones on the way towards Exascale. Increasing
levels of parallelism in multi- and many-core chips and emerging
heterogeneity of computational resources coupled with energy and memory
constraints force a reevaluation of our approaches towards operating
systems and runtime environments.

The ROSS workshop, to be held as a full-day meeting at the ICS 2012
conference in Venice, Italy, focuses on principles and techniques to
design, implement, optimize, or operate runtime and operating systems
for supercomputers and massively parallel machines.

The keynote will be delivered by Timothy Roscoe from ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

TOPICS OF INTEREST:
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- OS and runtime system scalability on many-node and multi/many-core systems
- specialized OSs for Supercomputing
- distributed/hybrid/partitioned OSs and runtime systems for Supercomputing
- fault tolerance
- system noise analysis and prevention
- interaction between middleware, runtime system, and the OS
- I/O resource management and forwarding
- parallel job startup
- memory management and emerging memory technologies
- real-time considerations for Supercomputing

SCHEDULE AND SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
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Submission deadline: April 6, 2012 (extended)
Author notification: May 7, 2012
Final papers due: May 25, 2012
Workshop date: June 29, 2012

The ROSS workshop proceedings will be published electronically along
with the ICS conference proceedings via the ACM Digital Library.
Submitted manuscripts should be formatted using the ACM SIG proceedings
alternate format. Extensive documentation can be found at the ACM site
(http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). The
maximum length is 8 pages. All papers must be in English. Please visit
the workshop website for further instructions and the submission link.

The best papers of the workshop will be considered for inclusion in a
special issue of International Journal of High Performance Computing
Applications (IJHPCA).

WORKSHOP CHAIRS:
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Torsten Hoefler, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Kamil Iskra, Argonne National Laboratory, USA

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
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George Almasi, IBM Research, USA
Henri Bal, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Pete Beckman, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Patrick Bridges, University of New Mexico, USA
Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Franck Cappello, INRIA, France / UIUC, USA
Bronis R. de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Markus Geimer, Juelich Supercomputing Centre, Germany
Roberto Gioiosa, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
Yutaka Ishikawa, University of Tokyo, Japan
Larry Kaplan, Cray, Inc., USA
Ron Minnich, Google, Inc., USA
Bernd Mohr, Juelich Supercomputing Centre, Germany
Raymond Namyst, University of Bordeaux 1, France
Rob Ross, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Pascale Rosse-Laurent, Bull, France
Martin Schulz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Jesper Larsson Traeff, University of Vienna, Austria
Robert Wisniewski, IBM Research, USA

Contact us at ross-2012@easychair.org if you have any questions.