The ROSS workshop, to be held as a full-day meeting at the ICS 2011 conference in Tucson, Arizona, focuses on principles and techniques to design, implement, optimize, or operate runtime and operating systems for supercomputers and massively parallel machines. ROSS provides a timely and lightweight forum for scientists and engineers to present the latest ideas and findings in this rapidly changing field.
The topics include but are not limited to:
The electronic proceedings of the ROSS 2011 workshop are available from
the ACM Digital Library. Click on the image on the left or on the
ACM DL page links next to each presentation below.
In the table below we also include links to abstracts and slides
for each presentation from the workshop.
| Time | Event |
| 8:45-9:00 | Workshop Opening and Overview |
| 9:00-10:00 | Keynote:
Ron Brightwell Why Nobody Should Care About Operating Systems for Exascale. Abstract, Slides (1.8 MB) |
| 10:00-10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 10:30-12:00 |
Jan Stoess, Udo Steinberg, Volkmar Uhlig, Jonathan Appavoo, Amos
Waterland, and Jens Kehne: A Light-Weight Virtual Machine Monitor for Blue Gene/P. Abstract, Slides (584 KB), ACM DL page 
Patrick Bridges, Kevin Pedretti, and Dorian Arnold:VM-based Slack Emulation of Large-scale Systems. Abstract, Slides (1.8 MB), ACM DL page 
Eric Van Hensbergen, Ronald Minnich, Curtis Janssen, Sriram
Krishnamoorthy, Andres Marquez, Maya Gokhale, P Sadayappan, Jim
McKie, and Jonathan Appavoo:Fault Oblivious eXascale Whitepaper. Abstract, Slides (3.3 MB), ACM DL page |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch Break |
| 13:30-15:00 |
Michael J. Brim, Barton P. Miller, and Victor Zandy:FINAL: Flexible and Scalable Composition of File System Name Spaces. Abstract, Slides (228 KB), ACM DL page 
Jun Kato and Yutaka Ishikawa:Design and Implementation of Parallel File Aggregation Mechanism. Abstract, Slides (972 KB), ACM DL page 
Abhishek Gupta, Gengbin Zheng, and Laxmikant V. Kale:A Multi-level Scalable Startup for Parallel Applications. Abstract, Slides (680 KB), ACM DL page |
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 15:30-16:30 |
Stephen Olivier, Allan Porterfield, Kyle Wheeler, and Jan Prins:Scheduling Task Parallelism on Multi-Socket Multicore Systems. Abstract, Slides (1.5 MB), ACM DL page 
Terry Jones:Linux Kernel Co-Scheduling For Bulk Synchronous Parallel Applications. Abstract, Slides (3.3 MB), ACM DL page |
| 16:30-17:30 |
Kazutomo Yoshii, Harish Naik, Chenjie Yu, and Pete Beckman:Extending and Benchmarking the “Big Memory” implementation on Blue Gene/P. Abstract, Slides (1.3 MB), ACM DL page 
Eric Van Hensbergen, Pravin Shinde, and Noah Evans:Brasil: Basic Resource Aggregation System Infrastructure Layer. Abstract, Slides (4.7 MB), ACM DL page |
| Submission deadline: | March 28th, 2011 AOE (extended) |
| Author notification: | April 18th, 2011 |
| Final versions due: | May 6th, 2011 |
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 style. Extensive documentation can be found at the ACM site. The maximum length is 8 pages. All papers must be in English.
The workshop uses the Easychair conference manager for submission and notification. Start the paper by providing the title and the abstract in plain text, and then submit the full paper in PDF. Please click here to start the process and follow the instructions. If you experience any problem, please contact us immediately.
The best papers of the workshop will be considered for inclusion in a special issue of International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications (IJHPCA).
Download the call for papers in pdf or text.
| Workshop Chairs | |
| Kamil Iskra | Argonne National Laboratory, USA |
| Torsten Hoefler | Blue Waters Directorate, NCSA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA |
| Program Committee | |
| 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 / University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA |
| Luiz De Rose | Cray, Inc., USA |
| Bronis R. de Supinski | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA |
| Christian Engelmann | Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA |
| Markus Geimer | Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Germany |
| Yutaka Ishikawa | University of Tokyo, Japan |
| Larry Kaplan | Cray, Inc., USA |
| Ron Minnich | Sandia National Laboratories, USA |
| Rob Ross | Argonne National Laboratory, USA |
| Martin Schulz | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA |
| Thomas Sterling | Louisiana State University, USA |
| Jesper Larsson Träff | University of Vienna, Austria |
| Robert Wisniewski | IBM Research, USA |
For further questions, please contact the workshop chairs.
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