Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing, Frankfurt, Deutschland

Abbrevation

VHPC

Link

http://vhpc.org/

City

Frankfurt

Country

Germany

Deadline Paper

2016-04-25

Start Date

2016-06-23

End Date

2016-06-23

Abstract

Virtualization technologies constitute a key enabling factor for flexible resource management in modern data centers, and particularly 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. Similarly, HPC environments have been increasingly adopting techniques that enable flexible management of vast computing and networking resources, close to marginal provisioning cost, which is unprecedented in the history of scientific and commercial computing. Various virtualization technologies contribute to the overall picture in different ways: machine virtualization, with its capability to enable consolidation of multiple underutilized servers with heterogeneous software and operating systems (OSes), and its capability to live–migrate a fully operating virtual machine (VM) with a very short downtime, enables novel and dynamic ways to manage physical servers; OS–level virtualization (i.e., containerization), with its capability to isolate multiple user–space environments and to allow for their coexistence 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 allows physical NICs/HBAs to take traffic from multiple VMs or containers; network virtualization, with its capability to create logical network overlays that are independent of the underlying physical topology and IP addressing, provides the fundamental ground on top of which evolved network services can be realized with an unprecedented level of dynamicity and flexibility; the increasingly adopted paradigm of Software–Defined Networking (SDN) promises to extend this flexibility to the control and data planes of network paths. Publication Accepted papers will be published in a Springer LNCS workshop volume. Topics of Interest 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, cloud HPC and grids – OS–level virtualization including container runtimes (Docker, rkt et al.) – Lightweight compute node operating systems/VMMs – Optimizations of virtual machine monitor platforms, hypervisors – QoS and SLA in hypervisors and network virtualization – Cloud based network and system management for SDN and NFV – Management, deployment and monitoring of virtualized environments – Virtual per job / on–demand clusters and cloud bursting – Performance measurement, modelling and monitoring of virtualized/cloud workloads – Programming models for virtualized environments – Virtualization in data intensive computing and Big Data processing – Cloud reliability, fault–tolerance, high–availability and security – Heterogeneous virtualized environments, virtualized accelerators, GPUs and co–processors – Optimized communication libraries/protocols in the cloud and for HPC in the cloud – Topology management and optimization for distributed virtualized applications – Adaptation of emerging HPC technologies (high performance networks, RDMA, etc..) – I/O and storage virtualization, virtualization aware file systems – Job scheduling/control/policy in virtualized environments – Checkpointing and migration of VM–based large compute jobs – Cloud frameworks and APIs – Energy–efficient / power–aware virtualization