WIVOSCA 2015 - Eighth Annual Workshop on the Interaction amongst Virtualization, Operating Systems and Computer Architecture (WIVOSCA 2015)

Operating systems (OS) constitute a major software component and are essential to any computing system. Commercial and server workloads such as online transaction processing, database, file/e-mail servers involve significant OS-level activity. The interactions between OS and emerging architectures (e.g. homogeneous and heterogeneous chip multiprocessors, simultaneous multithreading systems) / technology (e.g. hardware-assisted virtualization) are projected to continuously increase. In addition, the use of a wide variety of virtualization techniques, ranging from application-level virtualization to full-system virtualization, for providing application portability, managing power and performance, providing QoS guarantees and to effectively use the power of emerging architectures, has become prominent.
To optimize system performance/power/reliability/security, it is important to facilitate efficient interaction and cooperation amongst the three constantly evolving components - OS, virtualization and computer architecture.
This workshop focuses on characterizing, modeling, and optimizing the interaction between OS and hardware in the light of emerging architecture paradigms, workloads, and computing technology. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:
Architectural support for OS functionality and services
Architectural support for virtual machines and hypervisors
Hardware acceleration of OS and Virtualization services
OS and Virtualization support for emerging computer architectures
Implications of virtualization on OS design
Effect of OS/Virtualization on emerging architectures
System software-aware microarchitecture design
Leveraging OS/Virtualization to optimize reliability/thermal/power
Frameworks and tools for full-system simulation
Characterization of OS/Virtualization activity in emerging workloads
Performance, power, dependability, and security in OS/Virtualization
OS/Virtualization -intensive benchmark suites
Evaluation of the interaction/interference among OS/user
Mitigation of OS and Virtualization related execution bottlenecks
Architecture and Virtualization issues in data centers
Architecture and Virtualization support for cloud computing
Furthermore, the workshop aims at providing a forum for researchers, engineers, and students from academia and industry to discuss their latest research in virtualization, computer architecture and OS, to bring their ideas and research problems to the attention of others, and to obtain valuable and instant feedback from fellow researchers.
Workshop Co-Organizers
Tao Li, University of Florida (http://www.taoli.ece.ufl.edu/)
James Poe, Miami Dade College (jpoe-AT-mdc.edu)
Girish Venkatasubramanian, Intel (girish.venkatasubramanian-AT-intel.com)
Program Committee:
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Submission Guidelines:
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Important Dates
Paper Submission: March 29, 2015
Author Notification: April 24, 2015.
Camera-ready Version: May 08, 2015.