VHPC 2013 - 8th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing

8th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing
(VHPC'13) as part of SC 13, Denver, Colorado
sponsored by ACM sighpc
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.
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.
Lightning talks are limited to 5 minutes. Presentations may be
accompanied by interactive demonstrations.
TOPICS
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Management, deployment and monitoring of VM-based environments
- VM-cloud performance monitoring
- VM cloud topology management and optimization
- Operating systems virtualization supportpptimization
- VM-based cloud performance modelling
- Network virtualization for VM-environments
- Data virtualization
- Cloudbursting
- Evolved grid architectures including such based on network virtualization
- Workload characterization for VM-based environments
- Optimized communication libraries/protocols in the cloud
- System and process/bytecode VM convergence
- Cloud frameworks and APIs
- GPU Virtualization architectures and APIs
- Checkpointing/migration of large compute jobs
- Instrumentation interfaces and languages
- VMM performance (auto-)tuning on various load types
- Cloud reliability, fault-tolerance, and security
- Heterogeneous virtualized environments
- Paravirtualized I/O
- Services in cloud HPC
- Research and education use cases
- Virtualization in cloud, cluster and grid environments
- Cross-layer VM optimizations
- Cloud HPC use cases including optimizations
- Energy-aware virtualization
- Performance and cost modelling
- QoS and and service levels
- Languages for describing highly-distributed compute jobs
- VM cloud and cluster distribution algorithms, load balancing
- Instrumentation interfaces and languages
- Hypervisor extensions and tools for cluster and grid computing
- Virtual machine monitor platforms
- Cluster provisioning in the cloud