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16th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC 21) held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing Conference - High Performance, June 24 - July 2, 2021, Zoom Online Event. (Springer LNCS Proceedings)
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Date: July 2, 2021 Workshop URL: vhpc[dot]org
Online Zoom Event registration [free, limited slots] https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Ux8jRopGhCYku3Z_FFMfud3RLwMg4-DABE_EeqlLmAQ
Abstract Registration Deadline: February 15, 2021 Paper Submission Deadline: April 5, 2021 Springer LNCS
Call for Papers
Containers and virtualization technologies constitute key enabling factors 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. Most recently, Function as a Service (Faas) and Serverless computing, utilizing lightweight VMs-containers widen the spectrum of applications that can be deployed in a cloud environment, especially in an HPC context. Here, HPC-provided services become accessible to distributed workloads outside of large cluster environments.
Various virtualization-containerization 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; lastly, unikernels provide for many virtualization benefits with a minimized OS/library surface. I/O Virtualization in turn allows physical network interfaces 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 is furthermore enabling virtualization of HPC infrastructures.
Publication
Accepted papers will be published in a Springer LNCS proceedings 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, containers-virtualization and the cloud.
Major Topics: - HPC workload orchestration (Kubernetes) - Kubernetes HPC batch - HPC Rootless Container Environments Landscape - HW Heterogeneity - Container ecosystem - Networking - Lightweight Virtualization - Unikernels / LibOS - State-of-the-art processor virtualization (RISC-V, EPI) - Containerizing HPC Stacks/Apps/Codes: Climate model containers
each major topic encompassing design/architecture, management, performance management, modeling and configuration/tooling. Specifically, we invite papers that deal with the following topics:
- HPC orchestration (Kubernetes, Virtualizing Kubernetes for HPC, Deployment paradigms - Multitenancy - Serverless - Declarative data center integration - Network provisioning - Storage - OCI i.a. images - Isolation/security - HW Accelerators, including GPUs, FPGAs, AI, and others - State-of-practice/art, including transition to cloud - Frameworks, system software - Programming models, runtime systems, and APIs to facilitate cloud adoption - Edge use-cases - Application adaptation, success stories - Kubernetes Batch (Scheduling / job management, Execution paradigm - workflow, Data management, Deployment, Multi-cluster/scalability, performance, Workflow / execution paradigm) - End-to-end rootless Docker alternative container environment & use-cases - Creating, Running containers as non-root (rootless) - Running rootless containers with MPI - Container live migration - Running containers in restricted environments without setuid - Networking (SDN / NVF, SR-IOV, Network Slicing & provisioning, polling, federated learning OS abstractions). - Lightweight Virtualization (Micro VMMs: Rust-VMM / AWS Firecracker / solo5, Xen, KVM, Nitro, RVirt, Rust based hypervisors / Cloud Hypervisor / Novel hypervisors - Unikernels / LibOS - HPC Storage in Virtualization - HPC container storage - Cloud-native storage - Hypervisors in storage virtualization - Processor Virtualization - RISC-V (hypervisor extensions / ports / IOMMU specification) - EPI - Composable HPC microservices - Merging of high throughput computing and HPC - Novel schedulers for job to data placement - Containerizing Scientific Codes (Building / Deploying / Securing / Storage / Monitoring) - High performance containers - Portability of containers/images, impact on performance - Use case for containerizing HPC codes: Climate model containers for portability, reproducibility, traceability, immutability, provenance, data & software preservation
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.
Important Dates
February 15, 2021 - Abstract registration deadline April 5, 2021 - Paper submission deadline (Springer LNCS) May 3, 2021 - Acceptance notification July 2, 2021 - Workshop Day July 10th, 2021 - Camera-ready version due
Chair
Michael Alexander (chair), BOKU, Vienna, Austria Anastassios Nanos (co-chair), Nubis, Greece
Program committee
Stergios Anastasiadis, University of Ioannina, Greece Paolo Bonzini, Red Hat, Italy Jakob Blomer, CERN, Europe Eduardo César, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain Taylor Childers, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Stephen Crago, USC ISI, USA Tommaso Cucinotta, St. Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy François Diakhaté CEA DAM Ile de France, France Balazs Gerofi, RIKEN, Japan Kyle Hale, Northwestern University, USA Brian Kocoloski, Washington University, USA Simon Kuenzer, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany Giuseppe Lettieri, University of Pisa, Italy Klaus Ma, Huawei Technologies, China Alberto Madonna, Swiss National Supercomputing Center, Switzerland Nikos Parlavantzas, IRISA, France Anup Patel, Western Digital, USA Kevin Pedretti, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Amer Qouneh, Western New England University, USA Carlos Reaño, Queen’s University Belfast, UK Riccardo Rocha, CERN, Europe Borja Sotomayor, University of Chicago, USA Jonathan Sparks, Cray, USA Kurt Tutschku, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden John Walters, USC ISI, USA Yasuhiro Watashiba, Osaka University, Japan Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan
Paper Submission-Publication
Papers submitted to the workshop will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee and external reviewers. Submissions should include abstract, keywords, 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 a Springer LNCS volume.
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.
Abstract, Paper Submission Link: edas[dot]info/newPaper.php?c=28004
Lightning Talks
Lightning Talks are non-paper track, synoptical in nature and are strictly limited to 5 minutes. They can be used to gain early feedback on ongoing research, for demonstrations, to present research results, early research ideas, perspectives and positions of interest to the community. Submit abstract via the main submission link.
General Information
The workshop is one day in length and will be held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing Conference - High Performance (ISC) 2021, June 24 - July 2.