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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 09:38:31 -0000 Dear Mailing List Members, please find the CfP for this year's VHPC taking place on Rhodes Island, Greece attached. We are looking forward to your abstract/paper submission. Best Regards, Michael Alexander, Gianluigi Zanetti and Anastassios Nanos VHPC'12 Chairs =================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 7th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing VHPC '12 as part of Euro-Par 2012, Rhodes Island, Greece =================================================================== Date: August 28, 2012 Workshop URL: http://vhpc.org SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Rolling abstract submission June 4, 2012 - Full paper submission SCOPE: Virtualization has become a common abstraction layer in modern data centers, enabling resource owners to manage complex infrastructure independently of their applications. Conjointly, virtualization is becoming a driving technology for a manifold of industry grade IT services. The cloud concept includes the notion of a separation between resource owners and users, adding services such as hosted application frameworks and queueing. Utilizing the same infrastructure, clouds carry significant potential for use in high-performance scientific computing. The ability of clouds to provide for requests and releases of vast computing resources dynamically and close to the marginal cost of providing the services is unprecedented in the history of scientific and commercial computing. Distributed computing concepts that leverage federated resource access are popular within the grid community, but have not seen previously desired deployed levels so far. Also, many of the scientific data centers have not adopted virtualization or cloud concepts yet. This workshop aims to bring together industrial providers with the scientific community in order to foster discussion, collaboration and mutual exchange of knowledge and experience. The workshop will be one day in length, composed of 20 min paper presentations, each followed by 10 min discussion sections. Presentations may be accompanied by interactive demonstrations. TOPICS Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Higher-level cloud architectures, focusing on issues such as: - Languages for describing highly-distributed compute jobs - Workload characterization for VM-based environments - Optimized communication libraries/protocols in the cloud - Cross-layer optimization of numeric algorithms on VM infrastructure - System and process/bytecode VM convergence - Cloud frameworks and API sets - Checkpointing/migration of large compute jobs - Instrumentation interfaces and languages - VMM performance (auto-)tuning on various load types - Cloud reliability, fault-tolerance, and security - Software as a Service (SaaS) architectures - Research and education use cases - Virtualization in cloud, cluster and grid environments - Cross-layer VM optimizations - Cloud use cases including optimizations - VM-based cloud performance modelling - Performance and cost modelling Lower-level design challenges for Hypervisors, VM-aware I/O devices, hardware accelerators or filesystems in VM environments, especially: - Cloud, grid and distributed filesystems - Hardware for I/O virtualization (storage/network/accelerators) - Storage and network I/O subsystems in virtualized environments - Novel software approaches to I/O virtualization - Paravirtualized I/O subsystems for modified/unmodified guests - Virtualization-aware cluster interconnects - Direct device assignment - NUMA-aware subsystems in virtualized environments - Hardware Accelerators in virtualization (GPUs/FPGAs) - Hardware extensions for virtualization - VMMs/Hypervisors for embedded systems Data Center management methods, including: - QoS and and service levels - VM cloud and cluster distribution algorithms - VM load-balancing in Clouds - Hypervisor extensions and tools for cluster and grid computing - Fault tolerant VM environments - Virtual machine monitor platforms - Management, deployment and monitoring of VM-based environments - Cluster provisioning in the Cloud PAPER SUBMISSION 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 Style template: ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip Abstract Submission Link: http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=11943 IMPORTANT DATES Rolling abstract submission June 4, 2012 - Full paper submission June 29, 2012 - Acceptance notification July 20, 2012 - Camera-ready version due August 28, 2012 - Workshop Date CHAIR Michael Alexander (chair), TU Wien, Austria Gianluigi Zanetti (co-chair), CRS4, Italy Anastassios Nanos (co-chair), NTUA, Greece PROGRAM COMMITTEE Paolo Anedda, CRS4, Italy Giovanni Busonera, CRS4, Italy Brad Calder, Microsoft, USA Roberto Canonico, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy Tommaso Cucinotta, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy Werner Fischer, Thomas-Krenn AG, Germany William Gardner, University of Guelph, USA Marcus Hardt, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany Sverre Jarp, CERN, Switzerland Shantenu Jha, Louisiana State University, USA Xuxian Jiang, NC State, USA Nectarios Koziris, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Simone Leo, CRS4, Italy Ignacio Llorente, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Naoya Maruyama, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Jean-Marc Menaud, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France Dimitrios Nikolopoulos, Foundation for Research&Technology Hellas, Greece Jose Renato Santos, HP Labs, USA Walter Schwaiger, TU Wien, Austria Yoshio Turner, HP Labs, USA Kurt Tutschku, University of Vienna, Austria Lizhe Wang, Indiana University, USA Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan DURATION: Workshop Duration is one day. GENERAL INFORMATION The workshop will be held as part of Euro-Par 2012. Euro-Par 2012: http://europar2012.cti.gr/