ROME 2014 - Second Workshop on Runtime and Operating Systems for the Many Core Era ROME 2014

Since the beginning of the multicore era, parallel processing has become prevalent across the board. However, in order to continue a performance increase according to Moore's Law, a next step needs to be taken: away from common multicores towards innovative many-core architectures. Such systems, equipped with a significant higher amount of cores per chip than multicores, pose challenges in both hardware and software design. On the hardware side, complex on-chip networks, scratchpads and memory interfaces as well as cache-hierarchies, cache-coherence strategies and the building of coherency domains have to be taken into account.
However, the ROME workshop focuses on the software side because without complying system software, runtime and operating system support, all these new hardware facilities cannot be exploited. Hence, the new challenges in hardware/software co-design are to step beyond traditional approaches and to wage new programming models and OS designs in order to exploit the theoretically available performance as effectively and power-aware as possible.
The focus of the ROME workshop stands in the tradition of a successful series of events originally hosted by the Many-core Applications Research Community (MARC). Prior MARC Symposia took place at ONERA research center in Toulouse, at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam and at the RWTH Aachen University. Last year, this successful series has been continued by the 1st ROME workshop at the Euro-Par 2013 conference as a thematically related follow-up event for a broader audience.
Topics
This year, too, authors from all related disciplines are invited to submit unpublished papers regarding software for novel many-core hardware architectures. The call for papers especially emphasizes on the challenges and research questions arising from the upcoming generation of heterogeneous and/or massive parallel systems stepping towards a many-core dominated exascale era. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Operating system support for novel many-core architectures
Software stacks for new concepts of compute acceleration
Many-core aware runtime support for large-scale applications
Virtualization solutions to deal with hardware limitations
Tools for performance analysis on many-core systems
Dealing with legacy software on novel many-core architectures
New approaches for leveraging on-die messaging facilities
Experiences porting, running, or developing applications
Traditional and new programming models for novel many-core hardware
Heterogeneity- and/or hierarchy-aware many-core middleware
Bare-metal programming and system software
Power-aware many-core computing
Paper Submission, Registration, and Publication
Workshop papers must not exceed twelve single-spaced, single-column pages (LNCS style). On acceptance of the submission, at least one author is required to register for workshop attendance at Euro-Par 2014 and present the paper in the workshop session.
Upload your submission to our submission server in PDF format. It must not be simultaneously submitted to the main conference or any other publication outlet.
For the workshop, we will prepare hand-outs with the accepted papers. The revised versions will be published after the conference in the workshop proceedings of Euro-Par 2014, part of the LNCS series of Springer.
Important Dates
May 30, 2014: Submission deadline
July 4, 2014: Notification of acceptance
July 25, 2014: Workshop early registration
October 3, 2014: Workshop camera-ready papers due
Program Committee
Carsten Clauss, ParTec Cluster Competence Center GmbH, Germany
Stefan Lankes, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Timothy G. Mattson, Intel Labs, USA
Jörg Nolte, BTU Cottbus, Germany
Eric Noulard, ONERA, France
Andreas Polze, Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Germany
Michael Riepen, IAV GmbH, Germany
Bettina Schnor, University of Potsdam, Germany
Oliver Sinnen, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Christian Terboven, RWTH Aachen Univeristy, Germany
Carsten Trinitis, TU München, Germany
Theo Ungerer, Universität Augsburg, Germany
Josef Weidendorfer, TU München, Germany
Workshop Organizers
Dr. rer. nat. Stefan Lankes
Institute for Automation of Complex Power Systems, E.ON Energy Research Center, RWTH Aachen University
E-mail: slankes-AT-eonerc.rwth-aachen.de
Dr.-Ing. Carsten Clauss
ParTec Cluster Competence Center GmbH
E-mail: clauss-AT-par-tec.com