15th International Workshop on Runtime and Operating Systems for Supercomputers
ROSS @ SC26
15th International Workshop on Runtime and Operating Systems for Supercomputers
ROSS @ SC26
Note: Accepted papers will appear in the SC26 workshop proceedings
[3/18/2026] - The ROSS Workshop has been accepted as a half-day workshop to be included as part of the SC26 program!
The ROSS is a workshop aimed at identifying looming problems and discussing promising research solutions in the area of runtime and operating systems for extreme-scale supercomputer systems. Specifically, ROSS focuses on principles and techniques to design, implement, optimize, or operate runtime and operating systems for extreme-scale supercomputing and cloud environments. In addition to typical workshop publications, we encourage novel and possibly immature ideas, provided that they are interesting and on-topic. Well argued position papers are also welcome.
This workshop will consider all aspects of OS and runtime systems at extreme-scale including, but not limited to:
OS and runtime system scalability on many-node and multi/many-core systems;
Management of heterogeneous and reconfigurable compute resources, including FPGAs, GPUs, etc;
Management of emerging post-moore computing architectures, including quantum, neuromorphic, etc;
Distributed/hybrid/partitioned OSs and runtime systems for supercomputing;
Analysis and prevention of system noise and performance variability;
Runtime and operating systems for resource disaggregation;
Modeling and performance analysis of runtime systems;
The use of machine learning and AI techniques in the autotuning of system software and resource management;
OS and runtime considerations for large-volume, high-performance I/O;
Memory management and emerging memory technologies;
OS and runtime aspects of HPC in the cloud, convergence of supercomputing and cloud environments;
Infrastructure for cloud functions and serverless computing in the context of HPC;
OS and runtime support for emerging workloads such as on-demand or persistent service use cases;
Virtualization in HPC, including virtual machines and application containers;
The role of the OS and runtime system in minimizing power usage and energy efficiency;
OS and runtime impacts of security and trust for HPC.
Paper submissions opens: June 1, 2026
Paper submissions deadline: July 31, 2026 August 7th, 2026 (AoE)
Artifact Description (AD) Stage 1 (optional) submissions deadline: July 31, 2026
Notification to authors: September 4, 2026
Artifact Evaluation (AE) Stage 2 (optional) Submissions deadline: September 4, 2026
AE and Reproducibility Badges review period: September 7–23, 2026
Camera-ready papers: September 25, 2026
Workshop Logistics: November, 15, 2026, 9am-12:30pm, Room: 175bc
Submissions for workshop papers must be single-blind and at least five (5) pages in length (and should not exceed eleven (11) pages including all text, appendices, figures, and references. Accepted papers that meet these requirements will be published.
Submissions shall be submitted to https://submissions.supercomputing.org/ and must conform to the requirements established by IEEE proceedings template, two-column, US letter. Latex users, please use the “conference” mode. Word authors can use the “Interim Layout”.
Templates can be found here: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates
When: November 15, 2026
Where: SC26 Chicago, Illinois
Venue: McCormick Place
Registration: https://sc26.supercomputing.org/attendees/registration/
Submissions: submissions.supercomputing.org/?page=Submit&id=SCWorkshopROSSSubmission&site=sc26
Questions: kbferre@sandia.gov
9:00am - 9:05am CST Opening Comments
9:05am - 9:35am CST ROSS'26 Invited Opening Talk: Challenges in Integrating Quantum and HPC
Presenter Yoonho Park
Description As quantum computing transitions from experimental to practical, integrating it into the High-Performance Computing (HPC) ecosystem alongside CPUs and GPUs is essential. However, managing this heterogeneous, often geographically distributed infrastructure introduces significant systems challenges in resource scheduling, workflow orchestration, security, and interoperability. This talk examines these hurdles from a runtime and systems software perspective. Drawing on experiences building quantum-centric platforms, we will explore how operating systems and resource managers must evolve to make quantum resources first-class citizens in future HPC environments.
9:35am - 10:00am CST CAPIO: Safe Kernel-Bypass of Commodity Devices using Capabilities
Author/Presenters Friedrich Doku, Jonathan Laughton,Nick Wanninger, Finn McMillan,Arthur Zakrzewski, Peter Dinda
10:00am - 10:30am CST Morning Break
10:30am - 10:55am CST Mosaic: Ephemeral, Capability-Aware Scheduling Across Heterogeneous Rack-Scale Systems
Author/Presenters Gourav Rattihalli, Aditya Dhakal, Kunal Sharma, Dejan Milojicic
10:55am - 11:20am CST Resolving Placement–Residency Conflicts in Multi-GPU Task-Graph Runtimes
Author/Presenters Long Cheng, Yicheng Li, Jing Chen, Miquel Pericàs
11:20am - 11:45am CST DECARD: A Runtime for Distributed and Heterogeneous Architectures Based on Dataflow
Author/Presenters Diego Andres Roa Perdomo, Xiaoming Li
11:45am - 12:10pm CST Cross-Stack Resilience for Extreme Scale AI: Coordinated Recovery for Training and Inference
Author/Presenters Clarete Riana Crasta, Samantika Sury
12:10pm - 12:30pm CST ROSS'26: Wrap-up discussion
Kurt Ferreira - Sandia National Laboratories
Balazs Gerofi - Intel Corporation, USA
Torsten Hoefler - ETH Zürich
Jack Lange - Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Patrick Bridges - University of New Mexico
Miquel Pericas - Chalmers University of Technology; University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Kevin Pedretti - Sandia National Laboratories
Brian Kocoloski - Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD)
Bronis R. de Supinski - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Scott Levy - Sandia National Laboratories
Bernd Mohr - Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC)
Nicholas Gordon - Barkhausen Institute