7th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing as
part of
Euro-Par 2012 August 27 - 31, 2011 - Rhodes Island, Greece
CALL FOR PAPERS
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 queueing. 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 resources 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
data centers 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.
TOPICS
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Higher-level cloud architectures, focusing on issues such as:
- Languages for describing highly-distributed compute jobs
- Workload characterization for VM-based environments
- Optimized communication libraries/protocols in the cloud
- System and process/bytecode VM convergence
- Cloud frameworks and API sets
- Checkpointing/migration of large compute jobs
- Instrumentation interfaces and languages
- VMM performance (auto-)tuning on various load types
- Cloud reliability, fault-tolerance, and security
- Software as a Service (SaaS) architectures
- Research and education use cases
- Virtualization in cloud, cluster and grid environments
- Cross-layer VM optimizations
- Cloud use cases including optimizations
- VM-based cloud performance modelling
- Performance and cost modelling
Lower-level design challenges for Hypervisors, I/O devices, hardware
accelerators or filesystems, especially:
- Cloud, grid and distributed filesystems
- Hardware for I/O virtualization (storage/network/accelerators)
- Storage and network I/O subsystems in virtualized environments
- Novel software approaches to I/O virtualization
- Paravirtualized I/O subsystems for modified/unmodified guests
- Virtualization-aware cluster interconnects
- Direct device assignment
- NUMA-aware subsystems in virtualized environments
- Hardware Accelerators in virtualization (GPUs/FPGAs)
- Hardware extensions for virtualization
- VMMs/Hypervisors for embedded systems
Data Center management methods, including:
- QoS and and service levels
- VM cloud and cluster distribution algorithms
- VM load-balancing in Clouds
- Hypervisor extensions and tools for cluster and grid computing
- Fault tolerant VM environments
- Virtual machine monitor platforms
- Management, deployment and monitoring of VM-based environments
- Cluster provisioning in the Cloud
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; authors of accepted papers will be requested
to provide source files.
Format Guidelines:
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html
Style template:
ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip
Abstract Submission Link:
http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=11943