This workshop will emphasize novel, disruptive research ideas over incremental advances. We will solicit papers on topics including, but not limited to, the following areas:

Runtime System/Middleware Design, Evaluation and Usage

• Runtime/Middleware for emerging HPC and cloud computing platforms

• Runtime/Middleware for Big Data Computing

• Modeling and Performance Analysis of Runtime Systems

• Comparison studies of different runtime systems and middleware

• Tuning and Optimization studies

• Interactions between Runtime Systems and Middleware

• Runtime-architecture co-design

Constraints and Issues for Runtime Systems and Middleware

• Energy- and Power-aware schemes

• Fault Tolerance and Reliability

• Scalable high-performance I/O and access to Big Data

• Memory management

• Runtime data analysis (e.g., in-situ analysis)

• Real-time solutions and QOS

• Virtualization, provisioning, and scheduling

• Scalability of novel runtime systems and applications using them

Design Principles and Programming Support

• High-level programming models (e.g., thread and task based models, data parallel models, and stream programming) and domain-specific languages

• Programming frameworks, parallel programming, and design methodologies

• Methodologies and tools for runtime and middleware design, implementation , verification, and evaluation

• Wild and crazy ideas on future Runtime System and Middleware