News

• July 3, 2012: post-workshop materials (slides, paper proceedings links, pictures) posted on the Program page.
• June 29, 2012: the workshop took place on San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy. Congratulations to Abhishek Kulkarni for receiving the best paper award!
• May 2012: IJHPCA Special Issue from ROSS'11 appeared!
• May 8, 2012: announced the workshop program; accepted 10 out of 15 excellent submissions (66% acceptance rate).
• February 28, 2012: the keynote this year will be delivered by Timothy Roscoe from ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
• February 15, 2012: the workshop date has been decided; it will be held on June 29, 2012.

Scope

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 International Workshop on Runtime and Operating Systems for Supercomputers provides a forum for researchers to exchange ideas and discuss research questions that are relevant to upcoming supercomputers.

Topics of Interest

The topics include, but are not limited to:

• 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

Please see the submissions page for more information.