International Workshop on Runtime and Operating Systems for Supercomputers
*** ROSS 2018 ***

In cooperation with ACM SIGHPC
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Held in conjunction with HPDC 2018, Tempe, Arizona, USA, June 12, 2018

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http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/ross/2018/
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**** Encouraging Wild and Crazy Ideas as Well as Talk submissions ****

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 HPDC 2018
conference in Tempe, Arizona, USA, focuses on principles and techniques
to design, implement, optimize, or operate runtime and operating systems
for supercomputers and massively parallel machines.

In addition to typical workshop publications, we encourage novel and
possibly immature ideas, provided that they are interesting and on-topic.
Well argued position papers are also welcome.


TOPICS OF INTEREST:
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- OS and runtime system scalability on many-node and multi/many-core
systems
- management of heterogeneous and reconfigurable compute resources,
including FPGAs, GPUs, etc.
- distributed/hybrid/partitioned OSes and runtime systems for
Supercomputing
- 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
- memory management and emerging memory technologies
- the role of OS and runtime system in minimizing power usage

SCHEDULE AND SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
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Submission deadline: April 2, 2018 (extended)
Author notification: April 27, 2018
Final papers due: May 11, 2018
Workshop date: June 12, 2018

The ROSS workshop proceedings will be published electronically via the ACM
Digital Library. Submitted manuscripts should be formatted using the ACM
Master article template sigconf format (please be sure to use the current
version). Extensive documentation can be found at the ACM site
(http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template). The maximum
length is 8 pages. All papers must be in English. Please visit the
workshop website for further instructions and the submission link.

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
Bronis R. de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Roberto Gioiosa, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Yutaka Ishikawa, RIKEN, Japan
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
Yoonho Park, IBM Research, USA
Pascale Rosse-Laurent, Bull, France
Jesper Larsson Traeff, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Robert Wisniewski, Intel, USA

Contact us at ross2018@easychair.org if you have any questions.