======================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS ======================================================================= International Workshop on Runtime and Operating Systems for Supercomputers *** ROSS 2014 *** In cooperation with ACM SIGHPC -------------------------------- Held in conjunction with ICS 2014, Munich, Germany, June 10, 2014 ======================================================================= http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/ross/2014/ ======================================================================= 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: ------------------- - 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: ---------------------------------- Submission deadline: March 14, 2014 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: ---------------- Kamil Iskra Argonne National Laboratory, USA Torsten Hoefler ETH Zurich, Switzerland PROGRAM COMMITTEE: ------------------ 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.