VHPC 2024

19th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing

co-located with Euro-Par 2024

Madrid, Spain, Aug 27, 2024

CfP available in Text and PDF format.

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 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.

Workshop Highlights

Notes pad: https://pad.nbfc.io/p/vhpc2024

Keynote Presentation

"Towards Using Partitioned GPU Virtual Functions for Mixture of Experts"
Vignesh Chander (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.)

Workshop Format

Single-day workshop with keynote, paper presentations, and lightning talks focused on virtualization technologies in HPC and cloud computing.

Research Topics Covered

Networking & Infrastructure

• LLMs for Virtualized Networking Infrastructures
• Linux Virtual Networking Latencies Investigation
• Hardware acceleration in cloud environments

Security & Performance

• SEV Virtual Machine Live Migration
• Serverless Computing Architectures
• GPU virtualization for AI workloads

Technical Program

The workshop featured cutting-edge research in virtualization technologies, with particular emphasis on:

GPU virtualization and partitioning for mixture of experts models
Large Language Models (LLMs) applications in virtualized networking
Security aspects of virtual machine migration
Performance optimization in serverless computing platforms
Hardware acceleration for secure cloud execution

Resources

Call for Papers: Text Format | PDF Format
Workshop Notes: Collaborative Pad
Conference: Euro-Par 2024

General Information

The workshop will be held in conjunction with the International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2024), on Aug 27th, 2024, in Madrid, Spain.

For more information, refer to either the VHPC 2025 or the Euro-Par 2024 web pages.