ROME 2015 - 3rd Workshop on Runtime and Operating Systems for the Many-core Era (ROME 2015)

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, hybrid memory cubes, non-volatile memory and stacked memory, as well as deep cache-hierarchies and novel cache-coherence strategies will enrich the current research areas in the future.
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 operating system designs in order to exploit the theoretically available performance of future hardware 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. In 2013, the organizers continued this series by organizing the 1st ROME workshop at the Euro-Par 2013 in Aachen as a thematically related follow-up event for a broader audience. Last year, this tradition has again been pursued by holding the 2nd ROME workshop in conjunction with the Euro-Par 2014 conference in Porto, Portugal.
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This year, too, authors from all related disciplines are invited to submit unpublished papers regarding software for novel many-core hardware architectures.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 extensions for addressing may-core related issues
Many-core aware runtime support for large-scale applications
Virtualization solutions to deal with hardware limitations
Tools for performance and energy consumption analysis on many-core systems
Dealing with legacy software on novel many-core architectures
Experiences in porting, running, or developing many-core applications
Support for interactivity with and between many-core applications
Traditional and new programming models for novel many-core hardware
Concepts and methods for exploiting deep memory hierarchies
Operating system and file system designs for non-volatile memories
Heterogeneity- and/or hierarchy-aware many-core middleware
Software stacks for new concepts of compute acceleration
Bare-metal programming and system software
Power-aware many-core computing