ROSS 2012 - Workshop on Runtime and Operating Systems for Supercomputers

International Workshop on
Runtime and Operating Systems for Supercomputers
ROSS 2012
Held in conjunction with ICS 2012, Venice, Italy, June 25-29, 2012
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