<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Apologies if you received multiple copies of this message.<br><br><br>=================================================================<br>
<br>CALL FOR PAPERS<br><br>6th Workshop on<br><br>Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing<br><br>VHPC'11<br><br>as part of Euro-Par 2011, Bordeaux, France<br><br>=================================================================<br>
<br>Date: August 30, 2011<br><br>Euro-Par 2011: <a href="http://europar2011.bordeaux.inria.fr/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(66, 99, 171); ">http://europar2011.bordeaux.inria.fr/</a><br><br>Workshop URL: <a href="http://vhpc.org/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(66, 99, 171); ">http://vhpc.org</a><br>
<br>SUBMISSION DEADLINE:<br><br>Abstracts: May 2, 2011<br>Full Paper: June 13, 2011<br><br>Scope:<br><br>Virtualization has become a common abstraction layer in modern data<br>centers, enabling resource owners to manage complex infrastructure<br>
independently of their applications. Conjointly virtualization is<br>becoming a driving technology for a manifold of industry grade IT<br>services. The cloud concept includes the notion of a separation<br>between resource owners and users, adding services such as hosted<br>
application frameworks and queuing. Utilizing the same infrastructure,<br>clouds carry significant potential for use in high-performance<br>scientific computing. The ability of clouds to provide for<br>requests and releases of vast computing resource dynamically and<br>
close to the marginal cost of providing the services is unprecedented<br>in the history of scientific and commercial computing.<br><br>Distributed computing concepts that leverage federated resource access<br>are popular within the grid community, but have not seen previously<br>
desired deployed levels so far. Also, many of the scientific<br>datacenters have not adopted virtualization or cloud concepts yet.<br><br>This workshop aims to bring together industrial providers with the<br>scientific community in order to foster discussion, collaboration and<br>
mutual exchange of knowledge and experience.<br><br>The workshop will be one day in length, composed of 20 min paper<br>presentations, each followed by 10 min discussion sections.<br>Presentations may be accompanied by interactive demonstrations. It<br>
concludes with a 30 min panel discussion by presenters.<br><br>TOPICS<br><br>Topics include, but are not limited to, the following subjects:<br><br>- Virtualization in cloud, cluster and grid environments<br>- VM-based cloud performance modeling<br>
- Workload characterizations for VM-based environments<br>- Software as a Service (SaaS)<br>- Cloud reliability, fault-tolerance, and security<br>- Cloud, cluster and grid filesystems<br>- QoS and and service levels<br>- Cross-layer VM optimizations<br>
- Virtualized I/O and storage<br>- Virtualization and HPC architectures including NUMA<br>- System and process/bytecode VM convergence<br>- Paravirtualized driver development<br>- Research and education use cases<br>- VM cloud, cluster distribution algorithms<br>
- MPI on virtual machines and clouds<br>- Cloud frameworks and API sets<br>- Checkpointing of large compute jobs<br>- Cloud load balancing<br>- Accelerator virtualization<br>- Instrumentation interfaces and languages<br>- Hardware support for virtualization<br>
- High-performance network virtualization<br>- Auto-tuning of VMM and VM parameters<br>- High-speed interconnects<br>- Hypervisor extensions and tools for cluster and grid computing<br>- VMMs/Hypervisors<br>- Cloud use cases including optimizations<br>
- Performance modeling<br>- Fault tolerant VM environments<br>- VMM performance tuning on various load types<br>- Cloud provisioning<br>- Virtual machine monitor platforms<br>- Pass-through VM device access<br>- Management, deployment of VM-based environments<br>
<br>PAPER SUBMISSION<br><br>Papers submitted to the workshop will be reviewed by at least two<br>members of the program committee and external reviewers. Submissions<br>should include abstract, key words, the e-mail address of the<br>
corresponding author, and must not exceed 10 pages, including tables<br>and figures at a main font size no smaller than 11 point. Submission<br>of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper<br>be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the<br>
conference to present the work.<br><br>Accepted papers will be published in the Springer LNCS series - the<br>format must be according to the Springer LNCS Style. Initial<br>submissions are in PDF, accepted papers will be requested to provided<br>
source files.<br><br>Format Guidelines: <a href="http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(66, 99, 171); ">http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html</a><br>Submission Link: <a href="http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=10155" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(66, 99, 171); ">http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=10155</a><br>
<br><br>CHAIR<br><br>Michael Alexander (chair), IBM, Austria<br>Gianluigi Zanetti (co-chair), CRS4, Italy<br><br><br>PROGRAM COMMITTEE<br><br>Paolo Anedda, CRS4, Italy<br>Volker Buege, University of Karlsruhe, Germany<br>
Giovanni Busonera, CRS4, Italy<br>Roberto Canonico, University of Napoli, Italy<br>Tommaso Cucinotta, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy<br>William Gardner, University of Guelph, Canada<br>Werner Fischer, Thomas-Krenn AG, Germany<br>
Wolfgang Gentzsch, Max Planck Gesellschaft, Germany<br>Marcus Hardt, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany<br>Sverre Jarp, CERN, Switzerland<br>Shantenu Sjha, Louisiana State University, USA<br>Xuxian Jiang, NC State, USA<br>
Kenji Kaneda, Google, USA<br>Simone Leo, CRS4, Italy<br>Ignancio Llorente, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain,<br>Naoya Maruyama, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan<br>Jean-Marc Menaud, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France<br>
Anastassios Nanos, National Technical University of Athens, Greece<br>Jose Renato Santos, HP Labs, USA<br>Deepak Singh, Amazon Webservices, USA<br>Boria Sotomayor, University of Chicago, USA<br>Yoshio Turner, HP Labs, USA<br>
Kurt Tutschku, University of Vienna, Austria<br>Lizhe Wang, Indiana University, USA<br>Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, China<br><br><br>DURATION: Workshop Duration is one day.<br><br>GENERAL INFORMATION<br><br>The workshop will be held as part of Euro-Par 2011,<br>
organized by INRIA, CNRS and the University of Bordeaux I, II, France.<br>Euro-Par 2011: <a href="http://europar2011.bordeaux.inria.fr/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(66, 99, 171); ">http://europar2011.bordeaux.inria.fr/</a></span>