VHPC 2011 - 6th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing VHPC'11

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Deadline: June 20, 2011 | Date: August 30, 2011

Venue/Country: Bordeaux, France

Updated: 2011-06-14 22:37:06 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing

VHPC'11

as part of Euro-Par 2011, Bordeaux, France

Date: August 30, 2011

Euro-Par 2011: http://europar2011.bordeaux.inria.fr/

Workshop URL: http://vhpc.org

SUBMISSION DEADLINE:

Abstracts: May 2, 2011

Full Paper: June 20, 2011

Scope:

Virtualization has become a common abstraction layer in modern data

centers, enabling resource owners to manage complex infrastructure

independently of their applications. Conjointly virtualization is

becoming a driving technology for a manifold of industry grade IT

services. The cloud concept includes the notion of a separation

between resource owners and users, adding services such as hosted

application frameworks and queuing. Utilizing the same infrastructure,

clouds carry significant potential for use in high-performance

scientific computing. The ability of clouds to provide for

requests and releases of vast computing resource dynamically and

close to the marginal cost of providing the services is unprecedented

in the history of scientific and commercial computing.

Distributed computing concepts that leverage federated resource access

are popular within the grid community, but have not seen previously

desired deployed levels so far. Also, many of the scientific

datacenters have not adopted virtualization or cloud concepts yet.

This workshop aims to bring together industrial providers with the

scientific community in order to foster discussion, collaboration and

mutual exchange of knowledge and experience.

The workshop will be one day in length, composed of 20 min paper

presentations, each followed by 10 min discussion sections.

Presentations may be accompanied by interactive demonstrations. It

concludes with a 30 min panel discussion by presenters.

TOPICS

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following subjects:

- Virtualization in cloud, cluster and grid environments

- VM-based cloud performance modeling

- Workload characterizations for VM-based environments

- Software as a Service (SaaS)

- Cloud reliability, fault-tolerance, and security

- Cloud, cluster and grid filesystems

- QoS and and service levels

- Cross-layer VM optimizations

- Virtualized I/O and storage

- Virtualization and HPC architectures including NUMA

- System and process/bytecode VM convergence

- Paravirtualized driver development

- Research and education use cases

- VM cloud, cluster distribution algorithms

- MPI on virtual machines and clouds

- Cloud frameworks and API sets

- Checkpointing of large compute jobs

- Cloud load balancing

- Accelerator virtualization

- Instrumentation interfaces and languages

- Hardware support for virtualization

- High-performance network virtualization

- Auto-tuning of VMM and VM parameters

- High-speed interconnects

- Hypervisor extensions and tools for cluster and grid computing

- VMMs/Hypervisors

- Cloud use cases including optimizations

- Performance modeling

- Fault tolerant VM environments

- VMM performance tuning on various load types

- Cloud provisioning

- Virtual machine monitor platforms

- Pass-through VM device access

- Management, deployment of VM-based environments

PAPER SUBMISSION

Papers submitted to the workshop will be reviewed by at least two

members of the program committee and external reviewers. Submissions

should include abstract, key words, the e-mail address of the

corresponding author, and must not exceed 10 pages, including tables

and figures at a main font size no smaller than 11 point. Submission

of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper

be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the

conference to present the work.

Accepted papers will be published in the Springer LNCS series - the

format must be according to the Springer LNCS Style. Initial

submissions are in PDF, accepted papers will be requested to provided

source files.

Format Guidelines: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

Submission Link: http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=10155

CHAIR

Michael Alexander (chair), IBM, Austria

Gianluigi Zanetti (co-chair), CRS4, Italy

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Paolo Anedda, CRS4, Italy

Volker Buege, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

Giovanni Busonera, CRS4, Italy

Roberto Canonico, University of Napoli, Italy

Tommaso Cucinotta, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy

William Gardner, University of Guelph, Canada

Werner Fischer, Thomas-Krenn AG, Germany

Wolfgang Gentzsch, Max Planck Gesellschaft, Germany

Marcus Hardt, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany

Sverre Jarp, CERN, Switzerland

Shantenu Sjha, Louisiana State University, USA

Xuxian Jiang, NC State, USA

Kenji Kaneda, Google, USA

Simone Leo, CRS4, Italy

Ignancio Llorente, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain,

Naoya Maruyama, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Jean-Marc Menaud, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France

Anastassios Nanos, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Jose Renato Santos, HP Labs, USA

Deepak Singh, Amazon Webservices, USA

Boria Sotomayor, University of Chicago, USA

Yoshio Turner, HP Labs, USA

Kurt Tutschku, University of Vienna, Austria

Lizhe Wang, Indiana University, USA

Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, China

DURATION: Workshop Duration is one day.

GENERAL INFORMATION

The workshop will be held as part of Euro-Par 2011,

organized by INRIA, CNRS and the University of Bordeaux I, II, France.

Euro-Par 2011: http://europar2011.bordeaux.inria.fr/