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CALL FOR PAPERS
10th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC
'15)
held in conjunction with Euro-Par 2015, August 24-28, Vienna, Austria
(Springer LNCS)
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Date: August 25, 2015
Workshop URL: http://vhpc.org
Paper Submission Deadline: May 22, 2015
CALL FOR PAPERS
Virtualization technologies constitute a key enabling factor for flexible
resource
management in modern data centers, cloud environments, and increasingly in
HPC as well. Providers need to dynamically manage complex infrastructures
in a
seamless fashion for varying workloads and hosted applications,
independently of
the customers deploying software or users submitting highly dynamic and
heterogeneous workloads. Thanks to virtualization, we have the ability to
manage
vast computing and networking resources dynamically and close to the
marginal
cost of providing the services, which is unprecedented in the history of
scientific
and commercial computing.
Docker et al. OS-level virtualization, with its capability to isolate
multiple user-space
environments allows for their co-existence within the same OS kernel. It
promises to provide many of the advantages of machine virtualization with
high
levels of responsiveness and performance; coupled with lightweight OSs it
forms a
potent architecture with promise to become a mainstream environment
for HPC workloads.
Machine virtualization, with its capability to enable consolidation of
multiple
under-utilized servers with heterogeneous software and operating systems
(OSes),
and its capability to live-migrate a fully operating virtual machine (VM)
with a very
short downtime, enables novel and dynamic ways to manage physical servers;
I/O Virtualization allows physical network adapters to take traffic from
multiple VMs;
network virtualization, with its capability to create logical network
overlays that
are independent of the underlying physical topology and IP addressing,
provides
the fundamental ground on top of which evolved network services can be
realized
with an unprecedented level of dynamicity and flexibility; These
technologies
have to be inter-mixed and integrated in an intelligent way, to support
workloads that are increasingly demanding in terms of absolute performance,
responsiveness and interactivity, and have to respect well-specified
Service-
Level Agreements (SLAs), as needed for industrial-grade provided services.
The Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC)
aims to bring together researchers and industrial practitioners facing the
challenges
posed by virtualization in order to foster discussion, collaboration,
mutual exchange
of knowledge and experience, enabling research to ultimately provide novel
solutions for virtualized computing systems of tomorrow.
The workshop will be one day in length, composed of 20 min paper
presentations,
each followed by 10 min discussion sections, and lightning talks, limited
to 5
minutes. Presentations may be accompanied by interactive demonstrations.
TOPICS
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Virtualization in supercomputing environments, HPC clusters, cloud HPC
and grids
- OS-level virtualization including container runtimes (Docker, rkt et al.)
- Lightweight compute node operating systems/VMMs
- Optimizations of virtual machine monitor platforms, hypervisors and
- Hypervisor and network virtualization QoS and SLAs
- Cloud based network and system management for SDN and NFV
- Management, deployment and monitoring of virtualized environments
- Performance measurement, modelling and monitoring of virtualized/cloud
workloads
- Programming models for virtualized environments
- Cloud reliability, fault-tolerance, high-availability and security
- Heterogeneous virtualized environments, virtualized accelerators, GPUs
and co-processors
- Optimized communication libraries/protocols in the cloud and for HPC in
the cloud
- Topology management and optimization for distributed virtualized
applications
- Cluster provisioning in the cloud and cloud bursting
- Adaptation of emerging HPC technologies (high performance networks, RDMA,
etc..)
- I/O and storage virtualization, virtualization aware file systems
- Job scheduling/control/policy in virtualized environments
- Checkpointing and migration of VM-based large compute jobs
- Cloud frameworks and APIs
- Energy-efficient / power-aware virtualization
Important Dates
April 29, 2015 - Abstract registration
May 22, 2015 - Full paper submission
June 19, 2015 - Acceptance notification
October 2, 2015 - Camera-ready version due
August 25, 2015 - Workshop Date
TPC
CHAIR
Michael Alexander (chair), TU Wien, Austria
Anastassios Nanos (co-chair), NTUA, Greece
Balazs Gerofi (co-chair), RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational
Science, Japan
PROGRAM
