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<div class=""><span class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""> The 6th Workshop on</font></span></div>
<div class=""><span class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""> Runtime and Operating Systems for the Many-core Era</font></span></div>
<div class=""><span class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""> (ROME 2018)</font></span></div>
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<div class=""><span class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""> May 25, 2018, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada</font></span></div>
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<div class=""><span class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""> held in conjunction with</font></span></div>
<div class=""><span class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""> IPDPS 2018, May 21 - May 25, 2018</font></span></div>
<div class=""><span class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""> Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada</font></span></div>
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<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""> <font class=""><a href="https://wrome.github.io/vancouver2018/" class="">https://wrome.github.io/vancouver2018/</a></font></font></div>
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<div class=""><span class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">Background</font></span></div>
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<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">Since the beginning of the multicore era, parallel processing has become prevalent across the board. However, in order to continue a performance increase, a further evolutionary step is currently ongoing by moving
away from common multicores towards innovative heterogeneous many-core architectures with deep memory hierarchies on a large scale. Such systems, equipped with a significantly higher number 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 currently enrich the respective research areas.
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 challenges in hardware/software co-design are to step
beyond traditional approaches and to venture new approaches for runtime, middleware and operating system designs in order to exploit the theoretically available performance of upcoming hardware features as effectively and energy-consciously as possible.<br class="">
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In addition, there is currently a strong trend to converge the areas of cloud and high-performance computing. Classical cloud techniques will soon be used in the area of high-performance computing and vise-versa. Projects and frameworks have already proven
the benefits of OS-level virtualization for high-performance computing, whereas high-performance interconnects are able to accelerate cloud applications, too. Moreover, customized operating systems, hypervisors and unikernels are likely to leverage the efficient
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<div class=""><span class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">Topics</font></span></div>
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<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">Authors from all related disciplines are invited to submit unpublished papers regarding their work on many-core related software research regarding operating systems and runtime environments in the area of cloud
and high-performance computing. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">* Virtualization techniques (e. g. containers) for high-performance computing<br class="">
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<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">* System software to converge cloud and high-performance computing<br class="">
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<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">* Lightweight/specialized operating systems, unikernels and hypervisors<br class="">
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<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">* New approaches for operating systems on novel (heterogeneous) many-core architectures<br class="">
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<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">* System software for enabling parallelism at an extreme scale<br class="">
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<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">* Management, deployment of virtualized environments and orchestration<br class="">
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<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">* Many-core/multi-node aware runtime support for large-scale applications<br class="">
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<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">* Bare-metal programming and system software for many-cores<br class="">
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<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">* Extensions for operating systems and virtualization techniques to support emerging memory technologies<br class="">
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<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">* System noise analysis and prevention<br class="">
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<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">* Message-passing interfaces and middleware for many-core systems<br class="">
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<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">* Heterogeneity- and/or hierarchy-aware many-core middleware<br class="">
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<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">* Software stacks for new concepts of compute acceleration by GPUs, FPGAs and many-core architecture<br class="">
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<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">* Interfaces for performance and power analysis<br class="">
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<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">* Runtime support and kernel extensions for power-aware many-core computing</font></div>
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<div class=""><span class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">Paper Submission</font></span></div>
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<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""><span class="">Submitted manuscripts may not exceed ten (10) single-spaced double-column </span><span class="">pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style),</span><span class=""> </span><span class="">including
figures, tables, and references. The submitted manuscripts should include</span><span class=""> </span><span class="">author names and affiliations.</span></font></div>
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PDF format. Accepted</span><span class=""> manuscripts will be included in the IPDPS workshop proceedings.</span></font></div>
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<div class=""><span class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">Further Information</font></span></div>
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<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""><span class="">See the ROME'18 website at </span><font class=""><a href="https://wrome.github.io/vancouver2018/" class="">https://wrome.github.io/vancouver2018/</a></font></font></div>
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<div class=""><span class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">Important Dates</font></span></div>
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<div class=""><span class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">* January 30, 2018: Submission deadline</font></span></div>
<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""><span class="">* </span><span class="">February 23, 2018: Notification of acceptance</span></font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""><span class="">* </span><span class="">March 18, 2018: Workshop camera-ready papers due</span></font></div>
<div class=""><span class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">* May 25, 2018: ROME’18 Workshop</font></span></div>
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<div class=""><span class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">Workshop Organizers</font></span></div>
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<div class=""><span class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">* Stefan Lankes, Institute for Automation of Complex Power Systems,</font></span></div>
<div class=""><span class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""> E.ON Energy Research Center, RWTH Aachen University, Germany</font></span></div>
<div class=""><span class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">* Carsten Clauss, ParTec Cluster Competence Center GmbH, Germany</font></span></div>
<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""><span class="">* </span><font class="">Jens Breitbart, Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany</font></font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">Program Committee:</font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""><span class="">* </span><span class="">Jens Breitbart, Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany</span></font></div>
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<div class="">* Balazs Gerofi, University of Tokyo, Japan<br class="">
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<div class="">* Brice Goglin, INRIA, France</div>
<div class="">* Carsten Clauss, ParTec Cluster Competence Center GmbH, Germany<br class="">
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<div class="">* Alexandra Jimborean, Uppsala University, Sweden</div>
<div class="">* Stefan Lankes, RWTH Aachen University, Germany<br class="">
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<div class="">* Arthur Maccabe, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA<br class="">
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<div class="">* Jörg Nolte, BTU Cottbus, Germany<br class="">
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<div class="">* Lena Oden, Juelich Supercomputing Centre, Germany<br class="">
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<div class="">* Pablo Reble, Intel Corporation, USA</div>
<div class="">* Antonio J. Peña, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain<br class="">
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<div class="">* Juan Carlos Saez, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain<br class="">
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<div class="">* Bettina Schnor, University of Potsdam, Germany<br class="">
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<div class="">* Oliver Sinnen, University of Auckland, New Zealand<br class="">
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<div class="">* Christian Terboven, RWTH Aachen University, Germany</div>
<div class="">* Swann Perarnau, Argonne National Laboratory, USA<br class="">
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<div class="">* Josef Weidendorfer, TU München, Germany<br class="">
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<div class="">* Carsten Weinhold, TU Dresden, Germany<br class="">
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<div class="">* Robert Wisniewski, Intel, USA</div>
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Dr. rer. nat. Stefan Lankes<br class="">
Institute for Automation of Complex Power Systems<br class="">
E.ON Energy Research Center, RWTH Aachen University<br class="">
Mathieustraße 10<br class="">
52074 Aachen, Germany<br class="">
Phone: +49-241-80-49740<br class="">
<a href="mailto:slankes@eonerc.rwth-aachen.de" class="">E-Mail: slankes@eonerc.rwth-aachen.de</a></font></div>
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