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S(o)OS @ CASTNESS 2011

S(o)OS participated to the collaboration workshop on "Computing Architectures, Software tools and nano-Technologies for Numerical and Embedded Scalable Systems" (CASTNESS) held in January 2011 in Rome, putting together the European Projects belonging to the TERACOMP Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) call on terascale systems.

The CASTNESS'11 collaboration event grouped together the European Projects investigating on future massively parallel and distributed terascale computing platforms in the context of the FET Proactive Intiative "Concurrent Tera-Device Computing" (TERACOMP):

• TERAFLUX: Exploiting Dataflow Parallelism in Teradevice Computing
• TRAMS: Terascale Reliable Adaptive Memory Systems
• EURETILE: EUropean REference TIled architecture Experiment
• S(o)OS: Service-oriented Operating Systems

The meeting was very fruitful and the presented talks from the various projects provided an insight on the specific research issues pursued by the individual participants and how these aspects are being tackled. Also, it was quite clear that common needs exist in different projects, such as: to build simulator(s) for future terascale platforms; to investigate on novel programming paradigms; to experiment with new approaches to Operating System design; consideration of the particular needs of real-time and time-sensitive applications etc.
This poses the basis for potential collaborations among the projects, even if it was already clear that significant differences emerged in the various approaches. For example, considering simulation, there are different abstraction levels, evaluation metrics and ultimately, the goals of the simulation.
For more details on the relationship with S(o)OS and collaboration activities, see details on the Related Initiatives page.