[libvirt-users] CfP 11th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC '16) (deadline extended May 20th)

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CfP 11th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud
Computing (VHPC '16)

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CALL FOR PAPERS

11th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing
(VHPC '16) held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing
Conference - High Performance (ISC), June 19-23, 2016, Frankfurt,
Germany.

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Date: June 23, 2016

Workshop URL: http://vhpc.org

Paper Submission Deadline: May 20th (extended)

Call for Papers

Virtualization technologies constitute a key enabling factor for
flexible resource management in modern data centers, and particularly
in cloud environments.  Cloud providers need to manage complex
infrastructures in a seamless fashion to support the highly dynamic
and heterogeneous workloads and hosted applications customers deploy.
Similarly, HPC environments have been increasingly adopting techniques
that enable flexible management of vast computing and networking
resources, close to marginal provisioning cost, which is unprecedented
in the history of scientific and commercial computing.

Various virtualization technologies contribute to the overall picture
in different ways: machine virtualization, with its capability to
enable consolidation of multiple underutilized servers with
heterogeneous software and operating systems (OSes), and its
capability to live-migrate a fully operating virtual machine (VM)
with a very short downtime, enables novel and dynamic ways to manage
physical servers; OS-level virtualization (i.e., containerization),
with its capability to isolate multiple user-space environments and
to allow for their coexistence within the same OS kernel, promises to
provide many of the advantages of machine virtualization with high
levels of responsiveness and performance; I/O Virtualization allows
physical NICs/HBAs to take traffic from multiple VMs or containers;
network virtualization, with its capability to create logical network
overlays that are independent of the underlying physical topology and
IP addressing, provides the fundamental ground on top of which evolved
network services can be realized with an unprecedented level of
dynamicity and flexibility; the increasingly adopted paradigm of
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) promises to extend this flexibility
to the control and data planes of network paths.

Topics of Interest

The VHPC program committee solicits original, high-quality submissions
related to virtualization across the entire software stack with a
special focus on the intersection of HPC and the cloud. Topics
include, but are not limited to:

- Virtualization in supercomputing environments, HPC clusters, cloud

  HPC and grids

- OS-level virtualization including container runtimes (Docker, rkt et

  al.)

- Lightweight compute node operating systems/VMMs

- Optimizations of virtual machine monitor platforms, hypervisors

- QoS and SLA in hypervisors and network virtualization

- Cloud based network and system management for SDN and NFV

- Management, deployment and monitoring of virtualized environments

- Virtual per job / on-demand clusters and cloud bursting

- Performance measurement, modelling and monitoring of

  virtualized/cloud workloads

- Programming models for virtualized environments

- Virtualization in data intensive computing and Big Data processing

- Cloud reliability, fault-tolerance, high-availability and security

- Heterogeneous virtualized environments, virtualized accelerators,

  GPUs and co-processors

- Optimized communication libraries/protocols in the cloud and for HPC

  in the cloud

- Topology management and optimization for distributed virtualized applications

- Adaptation of emerging HPC technologies (high performance networks,

  RDMA, etc..)

- I/O and storage virtualization, virtualization aware file systems

- Job scheduling/control/policy in virtualized environments

- Checkpointing and migration of VM-based large compute jobs

- Cloud frameworks and APIs

- Energy-efficient / power-aware virtualization

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 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 be one day in length, composed of 20 min paper
presentations, each followed by 10 min discussion sections, plus
lightning talks that are limited to 5 minutes.  Presentations may be
accompanied by interactive demonstrations.

Important Dates

May 20, 2016 - Paper submission deadline

May 30, 2016 Acceptance notification

June 23, 2016 - Workshop Day

July 25, 2016 - Camera-ready version due

Chair

Michael Alexander (chair), TU Wien, Austria

Anastassios Nanos (co-chair), NTUA, Greece

Balazs Gerofi (co-chair), RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational

Science, Japan

Program committee

Stergios Anastasiadis, University of Ioannina, Greece

Costas Bekas, IBM Research, Switzerland

Jakob Blomer, CERN

Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories, USA

Roberto Canonico, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy

Julian Chesterfield, OnApp, UK

Stephen Crago, USC ISI, USA

Christoffer Dall, Columbia University, USA

Patrick Dreher, MIT, USA

Robert Futrick, Cycle Computing, USA

Robert Gardner, University of Chicago, USA

William Gardner, University of Guelph, Canada

Wolfgang Gentzsch, UberCloud, USA

Kyle Hale, Northwestern University, USA

Marcus Hardt, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

Krishna Kant, Templte University, USA

Romeo Kinzler, IBM, Switzerland

Brian Kocoloski, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Kornilios Kourtis, IBM Research, Switzerland

Nectarios Koziris, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

John Lange, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Nikos Parlavantzas, IRISA, France

Kevin Pendretti, Sandia National Laboratories, USA

Che-Rung Roger Lee, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

Giuseppe Lettieri, University of Pisa, Italy

Qing Liu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

Paul Mundt, Adaptant, Germany

Amer Qouneh, University of Florida, USA

Carlos Reaño, Technical University of Valencia, Spain

Seetharami Seelam, IBM Research, USA

Josh Simons, VMWare, USA

Borja Sotomayor, University of Chicago, USA

Dieter Suess, TU Wien, Austria

Craig Stewart, Indiana University, USA

Anata Tiwari, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA

Kurt Tutschku, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden

Amit Vadudevan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Yasuhiro Watashiba, Osaka University, Japan

Nicholas Wright, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA

Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan

Gianluigi Zanetti, CRS4, Italy

Paper Submission-Publication

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.

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:

ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip

Abstract, Paper Submission Link:

https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=21801

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.

General Information

The workshop is one day in length and will be held in conjunction with
the International Supercomputing Conference - High Performance (ISC)
2016, June 19-23, Frankfurt, Germany.