The 3rd Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cluster and Grid Computing (VHPC’08) is calling for papers. This prestigious workshop will be held as part of Euro-Par 2008, at Las Palmas de Gran Canaria on the Canary Island in Spain from August 26 to 29, 2008
Focus on Virtual machine monitors (VMMs)
VMMs 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 allow 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 and the accepted papers will be published in the Springer LNCS series. The workshop will be chaired by Michael Alexander (WU in Vienna) and Stephen Childs (co-chair), Trinity College in Dublin and will end with a 30 minute panel discussion by the presenters.
Topics include the following subject matters:
Virtualization in cluster and grid environments
Workload characterizations for VM-based clusters
- Virtualization in cluster and grid environments
Workload characterizations for VM-based clusters
VM cluster and grid architectures
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
High-speed Device access from VMs
Management, deployment of clusters and grid environments with VMs
Information systems for virtualized clusters
Management of system images for virtual machines
Integration with relevant standards e.g. CIM, GLUE, OGF, etc.