News

• July 9, 2015: All the post-workshop materials, including the slides from the keynote, are now available on the Program page.
• June 18, 2015: The workshop took place in Portland, Oregon, USA with record attendance. Congratulations to Balazs Gerofi and co-authors on receiving the best paper award! Post-workshop materials (most slides, proceedings links, pictures) are available on the Program page.
• June 3, 2015: The workshop will take place in rooms A103–A104 in the Oregon Convention Center.
• April 29, 2015: Preliminary workshop program has been posted. We accepted 7 out of 12 submissions as regular papers (58% acceptance rate) and invited one panel.
• March 21, 2015: The submission website is now closed. We have received 12 papers.
• March 10, 2015: The keynote this year will be delivered by Dr. Kimberly Keeton, HP Labs, USA.
• March 10, 2015: The deadline has been extended to March 20, 2015.

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
• 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

Please see the submissions page for more information.