Computer Architecture and Operating System co-design, CAOS ‘2011
Multi-core and/or multi-threaded architectures are monopolizing the market, from embedded systems to supercomputers. However, extracting high performance from these modern systems has become a complex task. As the number of cores per chip and/or the number of hardware threads per core continue to increase, new research questions arise in scheduling, power, temperature, scalability, design complexity, efficiency, throughput, heterogeneity, etc. Performance is not the only important metric anymore, and new metrics (such as security, power, total throughput, reliability and Quality of Service) are becoming more and more important. Therefore, it is evident that neither hardware nor software alone can achieve the desired performance and, at the same time, be compliant with these constraints. One approach to tackle these new challenges comes from hardware-software co-design.
This workshop aims to bring together researchers and engineers from academia and industry to share ideas and research directions in Computer Architecture and Operating System co-design and interaction. Authors are invited to submit innovative manuscripts in all areas of parallel and distributed processing, real-time systems, HPC systems and commercial/server systems.
