CALL FOR PAPERS
14th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing
(VHPC '19) held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing
Conference - High Performance, June 16-20, 2019, Frankfurt, Germany.
(Springer LNCS Proceedings)
Date: June 20, 2019
Workshop URL: http://vhpc.org
Paper Submission Deadline: May 1, 2019 (extended)
Springer LNCS, rolling abstract submission
Abstract/Paper Submission Link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=25685
Call for Papers
Containers and virtualization technologies constitute key enabling
factors for flexible resource management in modern data centers, and
particularly in cloud environments. Cloud providers need to manage
complex infrastructures in a seamless fashion to support the highly
dynamic and heterogeneous workloads and hosted applications customers
deploy. Similarly, HPC environments have been increasingly adopting
techniques that enable flexible management of vast computing and
networking resources, close to marginal provisioning cost, which is
unprecedented in the history of scientific and commercial computing.
Various virtualization-containerization technologies contribute to the
overall picture in different ways: machine virtualization, with its
capability to enable consolidation of multiple underutilized 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; OS-level virtualization (i.e., containerization),
with its capability to isolate multiple user-space environments and
to allow for their coexistence within the same OS kernel, promises to
provide many of the advantages of machine virtualization with high
levels of responsiveness and performance; lastly, unikernels provide
for many virtualization benefits with a minimized OS/library surface.
I/O Virtualization in turn allows physical network interfaces to take
traffic from multiple VMs or containers; network virtualization, with
its capability to create logical network overlays that are independent
of the underlying physical topology is furthermore enabling
virtualization of HPC infrastructures.
Publication
Accepted papers will be published in a Springer LNCS proceedings volume.
Topics of Interest
The VHPC program committee solicits original, high-quality submissions
related to virtualization across the entire software stack with a
special focus on the intersection of HPC, containers-virtualization
and the cloud.
Major Topics:
- HPC on Containers and VMs
- Containerized applications with OS-level virtualization
- Lightweight applications with Unikernels
- HP-as-a-Service
each major topic encompassing design/architecture, management,
performance management, modeling and configuration/tooling:
Design / Architecture:
- Containers and OS-level virtualization (LXC, Docker, rkt,
Singularity, Shifter, i.a.)
- Hypervisor support for heterogeneous resources (GPUs, co-processors,
FPGAs, etc.)
- Hypervisor extensions to mitigate side-channel attacks
([micro-]architectural timing attacks, privilege escalation)
- VM & Container trust and security models
- Multi-environment coupling, system software supporting in-situ
analysis with HPC simulation
- Cloud reliability, fault-tolerance and high-availability
- Energy-efficient and power-aware virtualization
- Containers inside VMs with hypervisor isolation
- Virtualization support for emerging memory technologies
- Lightweight/specialized operating systems in conjunction with
virtual machines
- Hypervisor support for heterogeneous resources (GPUs, co-processors,
FPGAs, etc.)
- Novel unikernels and use cases for virtualized HPC environments
- ARM-based hypervisors, ARM virtualization extensions
Management:
- Container and VM management for HPC and cloud environments
- HPC services integration, services to support HPC
- Service and on-demand scheduling & resource management
- Dedicated workload management with VMs or containers
- Workflow coupling with VMs and containers
- Unikernel, lightweight VM application management
- Environments and tools for operating containerized environments
(batch, orchestration)
- Novel models for non-HPC workload provisioning on HPC resources
Performance Measurements and Modeling:
- Performance improvements for or driven by unikernels
- Optimizations of virtual machine monitor platforms and hypervisors
- Scalability analysis of VMs and/or containers at large scale
- Performance measurement, modeling and monitoring of
virtualized/cloud workloads
- Virtualization in supercomputing environments, HPC clusters, HPC in
the cloud
Configuration / Tooling:
- Tool support for unikernels: configuration/build environments,
debuggers, profilers
- Job scheduling/control/policy and contain
