International Workshop on Runtime and Operating Systems for Supercomputers
*** ROSS 2014 ***

In cooperation with ACM SIGHPC
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Held in conjunction with ICS 2014, Munich, Germany, June 10, 2014

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http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/ross/2014/
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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 2014
conference in Munich, Germany, focuses on principles and techniques to
design, implement, optimize, or operate runtime and operating systems for
supercomputers and massively parallel machines.


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
- modeling and performance analysis of runtime systems
- OS and runtime considerations for large-volume, high-performance I/O
- parallel job startup
- memory management and emerging memory technologies
- the role of OS and runtime system in minimizing power usage
- real-time considerations for Supercomputing

SCHEDULE AND SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
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Submission deadline: March 21, 2014 (extended)
Author notification: April 21, 2014
Final papers due: May 9, 2014
Workshop date: June 10, 2014

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 may be considered for inclusion in a
special issue of International Journal of High Performance Computing
Applications (IJHPCA). The decision will be made after the workshop.

WORKSHOP CHAIRS:
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Kamil Iskra Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Torsten Hoefler ETH Zurich, Switzerland

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
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Patrick Bridges, University of New Mexico, USA
Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Franck Cappello, Argonne National Laboratory, 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, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
Yutaka Ishikawa, University of Tokyo, Japan
Larry Kaplan, Cray, Inc., USA
Michael Lang, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
John Lange, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Stefan Lankes, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Bernd Mohr, Juelich Supercomputing Centre, Germany
Raymond Namyst, University of Bordeaux 1, France
Yoonho Park, IBM Research, USA
Rob Ross, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Pascale Rosse-Laurent, Bull, France
Kyung Dong Ryu, IBM Research, USA
Jesper Larsson Traeff, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Eric Van Hensbergen, ARM, USA
Robert Wisniewski, Intel, USA

Contact us at ross2014@easychair.org if you have any questions.