Introduction

Present and future multi-core architectures pose a variety of challenges for system developers: non-cache-coherent memory, heterogeneous processing cores and the exploitation of novel architectural features, such as systems-on-chip (SoCs), distributed switching fabrics, silicon photonics, and programmable hardware. In the near future, we expect to see "rack-scale computers" with 1,000s of cores and terabytes of memory, connected with bandwidth and latency comparable to today's smaller-scale NUMA servers.

MaRS ’16 is a forum for researchers in the hardware, networking, storage, operating systems, language runtime and virtual machine communities to present their experiences with and discuss innovative designs and implementations for these new architectures.

Topics

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • novel multi-core and rack-scale operating system designs,
  • System-on-chip (SoC) and Network-on-chip (NoC) designs,
  • runtime systems and programming environments for future hardware,
  • low-latency and optical networking,
  • OS or runtime support for heterogeneous processing cores,
  • non-cache-coherent shared memory,
  • scheduling on many-core and rack-scale architectures,
  • programmable hardware,
  • energy efficiency, fault tolerance and resource management on future multi-core and rack-scale architectures,
  • rack-scale storage,
  • performance evaluation of emerging hardware,
  • architectural support for systems-level software,
  • case studies of system-level software design for current or future multi-core and rack-scale hardware, and
  • applications for and experiences with multi-core and rack-scale systems

Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished work that exposes a new problem, advocates a specific solution, or reports on actual experience. Papers should be submitted using the standard two-column ACM SIG proceedings or SIG alternate template, and are limited to 5 pages (including everything except references). Additional pages can be used for references if required. Papers that violate the submission guidelines may be rejected without consideration of their merit.

Final papers will be made available to participants electronically at the meeting, but to facilitate resubmission to more formal venues, no archival proceedings will be published, and papers will not be sent to the ACM Digital Library. Authors will be given the option of having their final paper accessible from the workshop website.

Authors of accepted papers will be invited to give a talk at the workshop.

Papers can now be uploaded to the online submission site.

Talk Submission

If you are interested in giving a talk at MaRS 2016, please submit a one-page abstract instead of a full paper.

Please submit talks to the same online submission site.

Authors of accepted papers/talks will also be invited to present their poster and/or demo in the EuroSys'16 joint poster session (details to follow). Student speakers will be eligible to apply for EuroSys travel grants to attend.

If you have any questions, please contact the workshop chairs.

Important Dates

  • Submission deadline: Friday, February 5, 2016
    Extended: Wednesday, February 17, 2016
  • Notification: March 9, 2016
  • Workshop: April 18, 2016

Organization

Chairs

Boris Grot (University of Edinburgh)
Simon Peter (UT Austin)
Chris Rossbach (VMware Research and UT Austin)

Program Committee

Mahesh Balakrishnan (Yale)
Antonio Barbalace (Virginia Tech)
Taesoo Kim (Georgia Tech)
Mark Oskin (University of Washington)
Mark Silberstein (Technion)
Cheng-Chun Tu (VMware)
John Wilkes (Google)
Bernard Wong (Waterloo)