VHPC 2023

VHPC 2023 Schedule (tentative)

Welcome Message from the VHPC'23 Chairs

08:45-09:00

Keynote Talk

"What is RCU and How Does it Help the Linux Kernel Scale?"
Paul E. McKenney, Software Engineer at Meta

09:00-10:00

Paper Session 1

10:00-11:00

Event-Driven End-to-End Testing For Containerized Applications
F. Nikolaidis, A. Chazapis, M. Marazakis, A. Bilas (FORTH, Hellas, and University of Crete, Greece)
Performance losses with virtualization: Comparing bare metal to VMs and containers
J. Baumgartner, C. Lillo, S. Rumley (University of Applied Sciences and Arts and DeepSquare.io, Switzerland)

Coffee Break

11:00-11:30

Invited Talks

11:30-13:00

Merging IT Services and HPC: Advanced Scheduling in Cloud Native
R. Rocha (CERN, Switzerland)
Static Partitioning or Automatic Tuning? Pinpointing the Best Configuration for Different Virtualization Scenarios
D. Faggioli (SuSE, Italy)
Virtualization and Power Optimization of Embedded HPC Applications in AMPERE
T. Cucinotta (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy)

Lunch Break

13:00-14:00

Paper Session 2

14:00-15:30

Improving live migration efficiency in QEMU: a paravirtualized approach
F. Storniolo, L. Leonardi, G. Lettieri (University of Pisa, Italy)
Accelerating Scientific Applications with the Quantum Edge: a Drug Design Use Case (invited paper)
V. De Maio, I. Brandic (Technical University of Wien, Austria)
Real-Time Unikernels: a First Look
L. Abeni (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy)

Concluding Remarks

16:00-16:10

Coffee Break

16:10-16:30

General Information

The 18th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC 2023) aims to bring together researchers and industrial practitioners facing the challenges posed by virtualization in HPC/Cloud scenarios 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 have a duration of one day and it will be held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing Conference - High Performance (ISC) 2023 on May 25th, 2023 in Hamburg, Germany.

For more information, refer to either the VHPC 2023 or the ISC 2023 web pages.