14th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing, Frankfurt, Deutschland

Abbrevation

VHPC

Link

https://vhpc.org/

City

Frankfurt

Country

Germany

Deadline Paper

2019-04-19

Start Date

2019-06-20

End Date

2019-06-20

Abstract

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, containers–virtualization and the cloud. Major Topics: – HPC on Containers and VMs – Containerized applications with OS–level virtualization – Lightweight applications with Unikernels – HP–as–a–Service each major topic encompassing design/architecture, management, performance management, modeling and configuration/tooling: Design / Architecture: – Containers and OS–level virtualization (LXC, Docker, rkt, Singularity, Shifter, i.a.) – Hypervisor support for heterogeneous resources (GPUs, co–processors, FPGAs, etc.) – Hypervisor extensions to mitigate side–channel attacks ([micro–]architectural timing attacks, privilege escalation) – VM & Container trust and security models – Multi–environment coupling, system software supporting in–situ analysis with HPC simulation – Cloud reliability, fault–tolerance and high–availability – Energy–efficient and power–aware virtualization – Containers inside VMs with hypervisor isolation – Virtualization support for emerging memory technologies – Lightweight/specialized operating systems in conjunction with virtual machines – Hypervisor support for heterogeneous resources (GPUs, co–processors, FPGAs, etc.) – Novel unikernels and use cases for virtualized HPC environments – ARM–based hypervisors, ARM virtualization extensions Management: – Container and VM management for HPC and cloud environments – HPC services integration, services to support HPC – Service and on–demand scheduling & resource management – Dedicated workload management with VMs or containers – Workflow coupling with VMs and containers – Unikernel, lightweight VM application management – Environments and tools for operating containerized environments (batch, orchestration) – Novel models for non–HPC workload provisioning on HPC resources Performance Measurements and Modeling: – Performance improvements for or driven by unikernels – Optimizations of virtual machine monitor platforms and hypervisors – Scalability analysis of VMs and/or containers at large scale – Performance measurement, modeling and monitoring of virtualized/cloud workloads – Virtualization in supercomputing environments, HPC clusters, HPC in the cloud Configuration / Tooling: – Tool support for unikernels: configuration/build environments, debuggers, profilers – Job scheduling/control/policy and container placement in virtualized environments – Operating MPI in containers/VMs and Unikernels – Software defined networks and network virtualization – GPU virtualization operationalization The Workshop on Virtualization in High–Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC) aims to bring together researchers and industrial practitioners facing the challenges posed by virtualization in order to foster discussion, collaboration, mutual exchange of knowledge and experience, enabling research to ultimately provide novel solutions for virtualized computing systems of tomorrow. The workshop will be one day in length, composed of 20 min paper presentations, each followed by 10 min discussion sections, plus lightning talks that are limited to 5 minutes. Presentations may be accompanied by interactive demonstrations.