VTDC 2015 - 8th International Workshop on Virtualization Technologies in Distributed Computing

VTDC'15 will be held in Portland, in conjunction with the 24th edition of HPDC (the International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing) with the support of FCRC 2015.
During the past few years, a convergence has been observed between cloud computing and High Performance Computing (HPC) at all levels, such as infrastructures, technologies, and applications. For example, cloud infrastructures are increasingly pressured to improve energy efficiency and resource utilisation, which are traditional HPC concerns, while cloud applications not only include long-running services, but also data-driven applications and number crunching jobs. On the HPC front, job elasticity (or dynamic jobs) has seen its way into batch schedulers: Instead of allocating resources for peak requirements, HPC applications can be allocated the right amount of resources for each execution phase, thus enabling a more efficient resource utilisation. Furthermore, hardware used to be either specialised for HPC or commodity for clouds, whereas now both types of infrastructure converge towards using commodity hardware with a few specialised components, in particular networking but also, e.g., accelerators. In the coming years, we expect this convergence to lead to hybrid infrastructures running hybrid applications, the infrastructures presenting characteristics both of HPC and cloud systems, whereas the applications featuring a mix of compute- and data-intensive applications, as well as user-facing services.
The VTDC workshop is open to researchers and practitioners in academia and industry who are involved in research, development, and planning activities involving the use of hybrid infrastructure and hybrid applications. Of particular interest are submissions highlighting the convergence between HPC and cloud systems at infrastructure, tools, or application level. For example, contributions showing the benefits of applying HPC techniques or technologies to clouds or the reverse are particularly interesting. Also of interests are submission highlighting the difficulty of managing hybrid infrastructures and/or hybrid applications.
More precisely, topics of interest include:
Cloud technologies (e.g., virtualisation, containers) applied to HPC
Use of HPC technologies (e.g., RDMA, low-latency communication, accelerators) inside clouds
Orchestrated management of hybrid applications or hybrid infrastructures
Unconventional HPC job scheduling (e.g., elasticity, migration)
Running HPC applications on cloud infrastructures
Programming models to support HPC application elasticity
HPC-as-a-Service platforms
Tools and programming models to support hybrid applications
Performance modelling for hybrid applications
Application deployment issues on cloud and HPC infrastructures
Hybrid workloads (e.g., jobs and services), analysis and modelling
Case studies of hybrid infrastructures and hybrid applications
BigData and data-driven applications running on cloud and HPC infrastructures
Submission
VTDC2015 invites authors to submit original and unpublished work. Submitted papers should be limited to 8 pages (including tables, images, and references) and formatted according to the ACM SIGS Style (http://www.acm.org/publications/gi-proceedings). Document templates can be found at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-t.... Only pdf format is accepted. All papers will receive at least three reviews. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register for the workshop and present the paper. Accepted papers will be included in the HPDC proceedings.
To submit a paper for VTDC 2015, please use the EasyChair submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vtdc15
Dates
Abstract submission: Feb 6, 2015 (11:59PM AOE)
Paper submission: Feb 13, 2015 (11:59PM AOE)
Acceptance notification: March 20, 2015
Final papers due: April 10, 2015
Workshop: June 15-16, 2015