Introduction
Virtualization technologies advocate a key operation for flexible resource management in modern data centers, and 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. Techniques have have been increasingly Adopting Environments that enable flexible VAST Management of Computing and Networking Resources, use Close to Marginal Provisioning cost, Which IS unprecedented in at The History of Scientific and Commercial's Computing.
Various Contribute to Virtualization Technologies at The Overall Picture in Different Ways: Machine Virtualization, with its capability to enable consolidation of multiple software and operating systems (OSes), and its capability to live--migrate a fully operating virtual machine (VM) with a very short downtime, enabled novel and dynamic Ways to manage physical servers; OS-level virtualization (ie, containerization), 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 can allow physical network interfaces to take traffic from multiple VMs or containers; With its capability to create logical network overlays that are independent of the underlying physical topology is to implement virtualization of HPC infrastructures.
Committee
CHAIR
Michael Alexander (chair), Institute of Science and Technology, Austria
Anastassios Nanos (co-chair), OnApp, UK
Romeo Kienzler (co-chair), IBM, Switzerland
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Stergios Anastasiadis, University of Ioannina, Greece
Jakob Blomer, CERN , Europe
Eduardo Cesar, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
Stephen Crago, USC ISI, USA
Tommaso Cucinotta, St. Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy
Christoffer Dall, Columbia University, USA
Patrick Dreher, MIT, USA
Kyle Hale, Northwestern University, USA
Brian Kocoloski, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Uday Kurkure, VMware, USA
Nectarios Koziris, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
John Lange, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Giuseppe Lettieri, University of Pisa, Italy
Nikos Parlavantzas, INSA Rennes, France Qing Liu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Kevin Pedretti, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Amer Qouneh, Western New England University, USA
Carlos Reaño, Technical University of Valencia, Spain
Borja Sotomayor, University of Chicago, USA
Craig Stewart, Indiana University, USA
Anata Tiwari, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA
Kurt Tutschku, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Yasuhiro Watashiba, Osaka University, Japan
Chao- Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan
Andrew Younge, Sandia National Laboratory, USA
Na Zhang, VMWare, USA
Call for paper
Important date
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, HPC in the cloud and grids
- OS-level virtualization and containers (LXC, Docker, rkt, Singularity, Shifter, ia)
- Lightweight/specialized operating systems in conjunction with virtual machines
- Novel unikernels and use cases for virtualized HPC environments
- Performance improvements for or driven by unikernels
- Tool support for unikernels: configuration/build environments, debuggers, profilers
- Hypervisor extensions to mitigate side-channel attacks
- ([micro-]archiveectural timing attacks, privilege escalation)
- VM & Container trust and security
- Containers inside VMs with hypervisor isolation
- GPU virtualization virtualization
- Approaches to GPGPU dynamic including API remoting and hypervisor abstraction
- Optimizations of virtual machine monitor platforms and hypervisors
- Hypervisor support for heterogenous resources (GPUs, co-processors, FPGAs, etc.)
- Virtualization support for emerging memory technologies
- Virtualization in enterprise HPC and microvisors
- Software defined networks and network virtualization
- Management, deployment of virtualized environments and orchestration (Kubernetes ia)
- Workflow-pipeline container-based composability
- Checkpointing facilitation featuring containers and VMs
- Emerging topics including multi-kernel approaches and NUMA in hypervisors
- Operating MPI in containers/VMs and Unikernels
- Virtualization in data intensive computing (big data) - HPC convergence
- Adaptation of HPC technologies in the cloud (high performance networks, RDMA, etc.)
- Performance measurement, modelling and monitoring of virtualized/cloud workloads
- Latency-and jitter sensitive workloads in virtualized/containerized environments
- I/O virtualization (including applications, SR-IOV, ia)
- Hybrid local facility + cloud compute and based storage systems, cloudbursting
- FPGA and many-core cache virtualization
- Job scheduling/control/policy and container placement in virtualized environments
- Cloud reliability, fault-tolerance and high-availability
- QoS and SLA in virtualized environments
- IaaS platforms, cloud frameworks and APIs
- Energy-efficient and power-aware virtualization
- Configuration management tools for containers (including in OpenStack, Ansible, ia)
- ARM-based hypervisors, ARM virtualization extensions
Guidlines
Papers submitted to The Workshop Will BE reviewed by AT Least TWO Members of the Program Committee and External Reviewers. On the Submissions Should the include abstract, Key words, The E-mail address of The 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 shall 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.
format the MUST BE AT Style at The Springer LNCS at The Initial ACCORDING to ON at The on the Submissions are in PDF;. in at The Papers in the authors of accepted by Will BE requested to by the Provide at The Source Files.
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Important Date
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Conference Date
Jun 24
2018
toJun 28
2018
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May 15 2018
Final Paper Deadline
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May 16 2018
Draft paper submission deadline
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May 30 2018
Draft Paper Acceptance Notification
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Jun 28 2018
Registration deadline
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