Rick Stevens, Argonne National Laboratory, Chair
Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratory, Vice-Chair

Charter:

Establish baseline capabilities required in the operating systems for projected HEC systems scaled to the end of this decade and determine the critical advances that must be undertaken to meet these goals. Examine the potential, expanded role of low-level runtime system components in support of alternative system architectures.

Guidelines and Questions:

• Establish principal functional requirements of operating systems for HEC systems of the end of the decade
• Identify current limitations of OS software and determine initiatives required to address them
• Discuss role of open source software for HEC community needs and issues associated with development/maintenance/use of open source
• Examine future role of runtime system software in the management/use of HEC systems containing from thousands to millions of nodes.
• Example Topics:
  • file systems, open source software, Linux, job and task scheduling, security, grid-interoperable, memory management, fault tolerance, checkpoint/restart, synchronization, runtime, I/O systems

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