4th Winter School on Operating Systems (WSOS 2026)
Save the date: 16.-20. März 2026
3rd Winter School on Operating Systems (WSOS 2023)
System Software for disruptive Memory Technologies“
Main memory, one of the central components of computer systems, has increasingly gained relevance. However, basic properties of the interface between memory and software remained the same despite increased capacities and access speeds: main memory is volatile, passive and mostly homogeneous. These assumptions also shape the expectations of software developers.
Recent developments invalidate these assumptions and thus are disruptive for industry as well as computer science research. Non-volatile memory modules in server systems as well as microcontrollers and high-bandwidth memory modules in HPC systems are already in use. In addition, current research in in- and near-memory computing is expected to enable high grades of parallelism by exploiting data locality properties.
In turn, this enables important improvements of computer system properties, e.g., the reduction of energy consumption, performance and reliability improvements, simplifications and reduced costs. However, it is still an open research question how current as well as future software and systems can make use of these innovations.
2nd Winter School on Operating Systems (WSOS 2019)
Operating Systems in Research and Industry
Computersysteme sind aus unserem täglichen Leben längst nicht mehr wegzudenken. Sie begleiten uns im privaten Bereich, steuern Industrieanlagen und kontrollieren kommerzielle Prozesse. Sie sind in Smartphones, Fahrzeuge und medizinische Geräte eingebettet, kontrollieren aber auch kritische Infrastrukturen für Kommunikation, Energieversorgung, Verkehr, usw. Ein integraler Bestandteil sind darin die Betriebssysteme als zentrale Schnittstelle zwischen Hardware und Anwendungen. Mit deren Zuverlässigkeit steht und fällt die Sicherheit, Verlässlichkeit, Reaktivität und Wartbarkeit sämtlicher Computersysteme – eine oft unterschätzte Aufgabe, wie zuletzt u. A. am Beispiel der Sicherheitslücken Meltdown und Spectre deutlich wurde. Die Bedeutung eines derart systemnahen Themas der Informatik ist also brandaktuell und die Forschung daran muss entsprechend gefördert werden.
1st Winter School on Operating Systems (WSOS 2016)
System Software for Dependable Computing
Computer systems are ubiquitous in our daily life. They can be found in our private environment and in commercial systems such as industrial plants or server farms. Others are embedded into vehicles and medical devices, or control important infrastructure for communication, power supply, traffic, etc. Since we entrust these systems our personal sensitive data and sometimes also our lives, they have to be absolutely dependable under any circumstance and in every possible situation.