SFMA 2018 - 8th Workshop on Systems for Multi-core and Heterogeneous Architectures (SFMA 2018)

Modern multi-core and accelerator-rich architectures present a variety of challenges for system developers. To achieve high performance on these platforms, application developers will need to exploit parallelism and leverage low-level hardware features to a much greater extent than before. At the same time, these traits are transcending single host systems as emerging integrated fabric technologies enable disaggregated rack-scale system designs in data centers, with hundreds of GB/s, sub-microsecond interconnects blurring traditional machine boundaries.
The workshop (the eight installment of the successful SFMA and MaRS workshops) brings together researchers in operating systems, language runtime, virtual machine and architecture communities to present and discuss their system building experiences with the new generations of parallel and heterogeneous hardware.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
novel multi-core operating system designs,
runtime systems and programming environments for future hardware,
OS or runtime support for heterogeneous processing cores,
scheduling on many-core architectures,
hybrid scale-up/scale-out system designs
energy efficiency, fault tolerance and resource management on future multi-core architectures,
performance evaluation of potential future hardware,
architectural support for systems-level software, and
case studies of system-level software design for current or future multi-core hardware.