======================================================================= SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ======================================================================= International Workshop on Runtime and Operating Systems for Supercomputers *** ROSS 2012 *** In cooperation with ACM SIGHPC ------------------------------ Held in conjunction with ICS 2012, Venice, Italy, June 29, 2012 ======================================================================= http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/ross/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 ROSS workshop, to be held as a full-day meeting at the ICS 2012 conference in Venice, Italy, focuses on principles and techniques to design, implement, optimize, or operate runtime and operating systems for supercomputers and massively parallel machines. The keynote will be delivered by Timothy Roscoe from ETH Zurich, Switzerland. TOPICS OF INTEREST: ------------------- - 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 SCHEDULE AND SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: ---------------------------------- Submission deadline: March 30, 2012 Author notification: May 7, 2012 Final papers due: May 25, 2012 Workshop date: June 29, 2012 The ROSS workshop proceedings will be published electronically along with the ICS conference proceedings via the ACM Digital Library. Submitted manuscripts should be formatted using the ACM SIG proceedings alternate format. Extensive documentation can be found at the ACM site (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). The maximum length is 8 pages. All papers must be in English. Please visit the workshop website for further instructions and the submission link. The best papers of the workshop will be considered for inclusion in a special issue of International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications (IJHPCA). WORKSHOP CHAIRS: ---------------- Torsten Hoefler University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Kamil Iskra Argonne National Laboratory, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE: ------------------ George Almasi, IBM Research, USA Henri Bal, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Pete Beckman, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Patrick Bridges, University of New Mexico, USA Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Franck Cappello, INRIA, France / UIUC, USA Bronis R. de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Markus Geimer, Juelich Supercomputing Centre, Germany Roberto Gioiosa, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Yutaka Ishikawa, University of Tokyo, Japan Larry Kaplan, Cray, Inc., USA Ron Minnich, Google, Inc., USA Bernd Mohr, Juelich Supercomputing Centre, Germany Raymond Namyst, University of Bordeaux 1, France Rob Ross, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Pascale Rosse-Laurent, Bull, France Martin Schulz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA Jesper Larsson Traeff, University of Vienna, Austria Robert Wisniewski, IBM Research, USA Contact us at [email protected] if you have any questions.