VHPC 2014 - 9th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC '14)

9th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC '14)
held in conjunction with Euro-Par 2014, August 25-29, Porto, Portugal
Date: August 26, 2014
Workshop URL: http://vhpc.org
Paper Submission Deadline: May 30, 2014
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 dynamically manage complex infrastructures in a seamless fashion for
varying workloads and hosted applications, independently of the customers deploying
software or users submitting highly dynamic and heterogeneous workloads. Thanks to
virtualization, we have the ability to manage vast computing and networking resources
dynamically and close to the marginal cost of providing the services, 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 under-utilized
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, with its
capability to isolate multiple user-space environments and to allow for their co-existence
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; 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.
These technologies have to be inter-mixed and integrated in an intelligent way, to support
workloads that are increasingly demanding in terms of absolute performance,
responsiveness and interactivity, and have to respect well-specified Service-Level
Agreements (SLAs), as needed for industrial-grade provided services. Indeed, among
emerging and increasingly interesting application domains for virtualization, we can find
big-data application workloads in cloud infrastructures, interactive and real-time multimedia
services in the cloud, including real-time big-data streaming platforms such as used in
real-time analytics supporting nowadays a plethora of application domains. Distributed
cloud infrastructures promise to offer unprecedented responsiveness levels for hosted
applications, but that is only possible if the underlying virtualization technologies can
overcome most of the latency impairments typical of current virtualized infrastructures (e.g.,
far worse tail-latency). What is more, in data communications Network Function
Virtualization (NFV) is becoming a key technology enabling a shift from supplying
hardware-based network functions, to providing them in a software-based and elastic way.
In conjunction with (public and private) cloud technologies, NFV may be used for
constructing the foundation for cost-effective network functions that can easily and
seamlessly adapt to demand, still keeping their major carrier-grade characteristics in terms
of QoS and reliability.
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, and lightning talks, 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 virtualized environments
- Language-process virtual machines
- Performance monitoring for virtualized/cloud workloads
- Virtual machine monitor platforms
- Topology management and optimization for distributed virtualized/cloud applications
- Paravirtualized I/O
- Improving I/O and network virtualization including use of RDMA, Infiniband and PCIe
- Improving performance in VM access to GPUs, GPU clusters, GP-GPUs
- HPC storage virtualization
- Virtualized systems for big-data and analytics workloads
- Optimizations and enhancements to OS virtualization support
- Improving OS-level virtualization and its integration within cloud management solutions
- Performance modelling for virtualized/cloud applications
- Heterogeneous virtualized environments
- Network virtualization
- Software defined networking
- Network function virtualization
- Hypervisor and network virtualization QoS and SLAs
- Cloudbursting
- Evolved European 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
- Checkpointing/migration of VM-based large compute jobs
- Job scheduling/control/policy with VMs
- Instrumentation interfaces and languages
- VMM performance (auto-)tuning on various load types
- Cloud reliability, fault-tolerance, and security
- Research, industrial and educational use cases
- Virtualization in cloud, cluster and grid environments
- Cross-layer VM optimizations
- Cloud HPC use cases including optimizations
- Services in cloud HPC
- Hypervisor extensions and tools for cluster and grid computing
- Cluster provisioning in the cloud
- Performance and cost modelling
- Languages for describing highly-distributed compute jobs
- VM cloud and cluster distribution algorithms, load balancing
- Instrumentation interfaces and languages
- Energy-aware virtualization
Important Dates
Rolling Paper registration
May 30, 2014 - Full paper submission
July 4, 2014 - Acceptance notification
October 3, 2014 - Camera-ready version due
August 26, 2014 - Workshop Date
TPC
CHAIR
Michael Alexander (chair), TU Wien, Austria
Anastassios Nanos (co-chair), NTUA, Greece
Tommaso Cucinotta (co-chair), Bell Labs, Dublin, Ireland
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Costas Bekas, IBM
Jakob Blomer, CERN
Roberto Canonico, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy
Paolo Costa, MS Research Cambridge, England
Jorge Ejarque Artigas, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
William Gardner, University of Guelph, USA
Balazs Gerofi, University of Tokyo, Japan
Krishna Kant, Temple University, USA
Romeo Kinzler, IBM
Nectarios Koziris, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Giuseppe Lettieri, University of Pisa, Italy
Jean-Marc Menaud, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France
Christine Morin, INRIA, France
Dimitrios Nikolopoulos, Queen's University of Belfast, UK
Herbert Poetzl, VServer, Austria
Josh Simons, VMWare, USA
Borja Sotomayor, University of Chicago, USA
Vangelis Tasoulas, Simula Research Lab, Norway
Yoshio Turner, HP Labs, USA
Kurt Tutschku, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan
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.
Accepted papers will be published in the Springer LNCS series - 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:
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html
EasyChair Abstract Submission Link:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=europa...
GENERAL INFORMATION
The workshop is one day in length and will be held in conjunction with
Euro-Par 2014, 25-29 August, Porto, Portugal