<div dir="ltr">====================================================================CALL FOR PAPERS <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">12th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC '17)held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing Conference - High Performance,June 18-22, 2017, Frankfurt, Germany.(Springer LNCS Proceedings) ==================================================================== Date: June 22, 2017Workshop URL: <a href="http://vhpc.org">http://vhpc.org</a> Paper Submission Deadline: May 2, 2017 (extended), Springer LNCS, rolling abstract submission Abstract/Paper Submission Link: <a href="https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=23179">https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=23179</a> Keynotes: Satoshi Matsuoka, Professor of Computer Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology and John Goodacre, Professor in Computer Architectures University of Manchester, Director of Technology and Systems ARM Ltd. Research Group and Chief Scientific Officer Kaleao Ltd. <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Call for Papers Virtualization technologies constitute a key enabling factor for flexible resource managementin modern data centers, and particularly in cloud environments. Cloud providers need tomanage complex infrastructures in a seamless fashion to support the highly dynamic andheterogeneous workloads and hosted applications customers deploy. Similarly, HPCenvironments have been increasingly adopting techniques that enable flexible management of vast computing and networking resources, close to marginal provisioning cost, which isunprecedented in the history of scientific and commercial computing. Various virtualization technologies contribute to the overall picture in different ways: machinevirtualization, with its capability to enable consolidation of multiple underutilized servers withheterogeneous software and operating systems (OSes), and its capability to live-migrate afully operating virtual machine (VM) with a very short downtime, enables novel and dynamicways to manage physical servers; OS-level virtualization (i.e., containerization), with itscapability to isolate multiple user-space environments and to allow for their coexistence withinthe same OS kernel, promises to provide many of the advantages of machine virtualizationwith high levels of responsiveness and performance; I/O Virtualization allows physicalNICs/HBAs to take traffic from multiple VMs or containers; network virtualization, with itscapability to create logical network overlays that are independent of the underlying physicaltopology and IP addressing, provides the fundamental ground on top of which evolvednetwork services can be realized with an unprecedented level of dynamicity and flexibility; theincreasingly adopted paradigm of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) promises to extendthis flexibility to the control and data planes of network paths. 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 tovirtualization across the entire software stack with a special focus on the intersection of HPCand the cloud. Major Topics - Virtualization in supercomputing environments, HPC clusters, HPC in the cloud and grids - OS-level virtualization and containers (Docker, rkt, Singularity, Shifter, i.a.) - Lightweight/specialized operating systems, unikernels - Optimizations of virtual machine monitor platforms and hypervisors - Hypervisor support for heterogenous resources (GPUs, co-processors, FPGAs, etc.) - Virtualization support for emerging memory technologies- Virtualization in enterprise HPC and microvisors - Software defined networks and network virtualization - Management, deployment of virtualized environments and orchestration (Kubernetes i.a.), - Workflow-pipeline container-based composability - Performance measurement, modelling and monitoring of virtualized/cloud workloads - Virtualization in data intensive computing and Big Data processing - HPC convergence - Adaptation of HPC technologies in the cloud (high performance networks, RDMA, etc.)- ARM-based hypervisors, ARM virtualization extensions - I/O virtualization and cloud based storage systems- GPU, FPGA and many-core accelerator virtualization - Job scheduling/control/policy and container placement in virtualized environments - Cloud reliability, fault-tolerance and high-availability - QoS and SLA in virtualized environments - IaaS platforms, cloud frameworks and APIs - Large-scale virtualization in domains such as finance and government - Energy-efficient and power-aware virtualization- Container security- Configuration management tools for containers (including CFEngine, Puppet, i.a.)- Emerging topics including multi-kernel approaches and,NUMA in hypervisors The Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC) aims tobring together researchers and industrial practitioners facing the challenges posed by virtualization in order to foster discussion, collaboration, mutual exchangeof knowledge and experience, enabling research to ultimately provide novelsolutions for virtualized computing systems of tomorrow. The workshop will be one day in length, composed of 20 min paper presentations, eachfollowed by 10 min discussion sections, plus lightning talks that are limited to 5 minutes.Presentations may be accompanied by interactive demonstrations. <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Important Dates Rolling Abstract SubmissionMay 2, 2017 - Paper submission deadline (extended)May 30, 2017 - Acceptance notification June 22, 2017 - Workshop DayJuly 18, 2017 - Camera-ready version due <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Chair Michael Alexander (chair), scaledinfra technologies, AustriaAnastassios Nanos (co-chair), NTUA, GreeceBalazs Gerofi (co-chair), RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science, Japan <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Program committee Stergios Anastasiadis, University of Ioannina, Greece Jakob Blomer, CERN, Europe Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Eduardo César, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, SpainJulian Chesterfield, OnApp, UK Stephen Crago, USC ISI, USAChristoffer Dall, Columbia University, USAPatrick Dreher, MIT, USA Robert Futrick, Cycle Computing, USAMaria Girone, CERN, EuropeKyle Hale, Northwestern University, USA Romeo Kinzler, IBM, SwitzerlandBrian Kocoloski, University of Pittsburgh, USANectarios Koziris, National Technical University of Athens, Greece John Lange, University of Pittsburgh, USAChe-Rung Lee, National Tsing Hua University, TaiwanGiuseppe Lettieri, University of Pisa, ItalyQing Liu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USANikos Parlavantzas, IRISA, FranceKevin Pedretti, Sandia National Laboratories, USAAmer Qouneh, University of Florida, USA Carlos Reaño, Technical University of Valencia, SpainThomas Ryd, CFEngine, NorwayNa Zhang, VMWare, USABorja Sotomayor, University of Chicago, USA Craig Stewart, Indiana University, USAAnata Tiwari, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USAKurt Tutschku, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Yasuhiro Watashiba, Osaka University, Japan Nicholas Wright, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USAChao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Paper Submission-Publication Papers submitted to the workshop will be reviewed by at least twomembers of the program committee and external reviewers. Submissionsshould include abstract, key words, the e-mail address of thecorresponding author, and must not exceed 10 pages, including tablesand figures at a main font size no smaller than 11 point. Submissionof a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paperbe accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend theconference to present the work. Accepted papers will be published in aSpringer LNCS volume. . The format must be according to the Springer LNCS Style. Initialsubmissions are in PDF; authors of accepted papers will be requestedto provide source files. Format Guidelines:<a href="ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip">ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip</a> Abstract, Paper Submission Link:<a href="https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=23179">https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=23179</a> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Lightning Talks Lightning Talks are non-paper track, synoptical in nature and are strictly limited to 5 minutes.They can be used to gain early feedback on ongoing research, for demonstrations, to present research results, early research ideas, perspectives and positions of interest to the community. Submit abstract via the main submission link. <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">General Information The workshop is one day in length and will be held in conjunction with the InternationalSupercomputing Conference - High Performance (ISC) 2017, June 18-22, Frankfurt, Germany. </div>