Sonia Sachs held the first Runtime Systems Summit on April 9, 2014. The contents of the meeting are below, revised with updates by the attendees.

Exascale Runtime Systems Summit Plan and Outcomes

Summit Goals

Summit rule: Participants should not promote their current research agenda

Generate a roadmap for achieving a unified runtime systems architecture for Exascale systems
- Reach consensus on the top six challenges and solutions for them.
- Agree on a comprehensive set of questions that must be answered in order to achieve such architecture
- Current known answers to posed questions
Generate a roadmap for a research program on runtime systems
- Consistent with achieving a unified runtime systems architecture
- Discuss future workshop
Prepare for writing a report