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3rd Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cluster and Grid Computing (VHPC'08)

as part of Euro-Par 2008, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Island, Spain

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Date: August 26-29, 2008

Euro-Par 2008: http://europar2008.caos.uab.es/ Workshop URL: http://xhpc.wu-wien.ac.at/

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Abstracts: February 4, 2008 Full Paper: April 14, 2008

Scope: Virtual machine monitors are reaching wide-spread adoption in a variety of operating systems as well as scientific educational and operational usage areas. With their low overhead, hypervisors allows for concurrently running large numbers of virtual machines, providing each encapsulation, isolation and in the case of Xen, network-wide CPU migratability. VMMs offer a network-wide abstraction layer of individual machine resources to OS environments, thereby opening whole new cluster-and grid high-performance computing (HPC) architectures and HPC services options. With VMMs finding applications in HPC environments, these workshops aim to bring together researchers and practitioners active on virtualization in distributed and high-performance cluster and grid computing environments.

The workshops will be one day in length, composed of 20 min paper presentations, each followed by 10 min discussion sections. Presentations may be accompanied with interactive demonstrations. The workshop will end with a 30 min panel discussion by presenters.

TOPICS

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following subject matters:

- Virtualization in cluster and grid environments - Workload characterizations for VM-based clusters - VM cluster and grid architectures - Linux Hypervisors - Cluster reliability, fault-tolerance, and security - Compute job entry and scheduling - Compute workload load leveling - Cluster and grid filesystems for VMs - VMMs, VMs and QoS guarantees - Research and education use cases - VM cluster distribution algorithms - MPI, PVM on virtual machines - System sizing - Hardware support for virtualization - High-speed interconnects in hypervisors - Hypervisor extensions and utilities for cluster and grid computing - Network architectures for VM-based clusters - VMMs/Hypervisors on large SMP machines - Performance models - Performance management and tuning hosts and guest VMs - Power considerations - VMM performance tuning on various load types - Xen/other VMM cluster/grid tools - Device access from VMs - Management, deployment of clusters and grid environments with VMs

PAPER SUBMISSION

Papers submitted to each 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, accepted papers will be requested to provided source files.

http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

Submission Link: http://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=6123&

IMPORTANT DATES

February 4, 2008 - Abstract submissions due Full paper submission due: April 14, 2008 Acceptance notification: Mary 3, 2008 Camera-ready due: May 26, 2008 Conference: August 26-29, 2008

CHAIR

Michael Alexander (chair), WU Vienna, Austria Stephen Childs (co-chair), Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Jussara Almeida, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brasil Padmashree Apparao, Intel Corp., US Hassan Barada, Etisalat University College, UAE Volker Buege, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Simon Crosby, Xensource, UK Marcus Hardt, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany Sverre Jarp, CERN, Switzerland Krishna Kant, Intel Corporation, US Yves Kemp, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Naoya Maruyama, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan José E. Moreira, IBM Watson Research Center, US Andreas Unterkircher, CERN, Switzerland Dongyan Xu, Purdue University, US

GENERAL INFORMATION

The workshop will be held as part of Euro-Par 2008, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Island, Spain.

Euro-Par 2008: http://europar2008.caos.uab.es/