following the 18th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing” (VHPC), we would like to invite you to submit a paper to the Special Issue on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing Journal of Systems Architecture (JSA) Elsevier, a first quarter ranked Scientific Journal Ranking/CiteScore journal.

Special Issue: Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing Journal of Systems Architecture (JSA) Elsevier Submission deadline: November 30th, 2023

Accelerator Virtualization::we particularly welcome submissions on:

*architectural propositions of specialized accelerator hardware for LLM **training and inference, with a keen focus on their virtualization.* *This includes, but is not limited to, systolic arrays utilized in matrix multiplication, similar to those in TPUs.*

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers Special Issue: Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing Journal of Systems Architecture (JSA) Elsevier Submission deadline: November 30, 2023 ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------

This JSA Special Issue solicits original, high-quality submissions related to topics of interest for the VHPC series of workshops, i.e., virtualization across the entire software stack with a special focus on the intersection of HPC, Containerization/Virtualization and Cloud/Edge Computing.

Each topic encompasses aspects related to design/architecture, management, performance management, modeling and configuration/tooling:

# Accelerator virtualization We particularly welcome submissions on architectural propositions of specialized accelerator hardware for LLM training and inference, with a keen focus on their virtualization. This includes, but is not limited to, systolic arrays utilized in matrix multiplication, similar to those in TPUs.

# Design / Architecture:

* Containers and OS-level virtualization (LXC, Docker, rkt, Singularity, Shifter) * Hypervisor support for heterogeneous resources (GPUs, co-processors, FPGAs, etc.) * Hypervisor extensions to mitigate side-channel attacks ([micro-]architectural timing attacks, privilege escalation) * Use of Risc-V related technologies for cloud, virtualized and HPC use-cases * 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 * Cloud-based quantum compute services * Energy-efficient and power-aware virtualization * Containers inside VMs with hypervisor isolation * Virtualization support for emerging memory and storage technologies * Lightweight/specialized operating systems in conjunction with virtual machines * Unikernels and use cases for virtualized HPC environments * Formal definition and verification of hypervisors and virtualization system properties * ARM-based hypervisors, ARM virtualization extensions

# Management:

* Container and VM management for HPC and Cloud/Edge environments * Virtualized/Cloudified instances to support Lambda / Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) Paradigms * 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 * Unikernels and lightweight VM application management * Environments and tools for operating containerized environments (batch, orchestration) * 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 * Energy-efficient deployment of high-performance, ultra-low latency and real-time workloads in cloud infrastructures * Modeling, control and isolation of end-to-end performance for parallel & distributed Cloud/HPC applications, including the use of cloud functions / FaaS

# Configuration / Tooling:

* Tool support for unikernels: configuration/build environments, debuggers, profilers * Job scheduling/control/policy and container placement in virtualized environments * Measuring and controlling “OS/Virtualization noise” * Operating MPI in containers/VMs and Unikernels * GPU virtualization operationalization * Manuscript submission information:

# Guest editors: Prof. Tommaso Cucinotta, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy Michael Alexander, Austrian Academy of Sciences Anastassios Nanos, Nubificus, Ltd., UK

# Important Dates Submission Start Date: September 15, 2023 Submission deadline: November 30, 2023 Expected Acceptance Deadline (Subject to change): January 1, 2024

# Paper Submission JSA SI call at Elsevier: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-systems-architecture/about/... General information for submitting papers to JSA can be found at: https://www.elsevier.com/journals/journal-of-systems-architecture/1383-7621/...

Submissions should be made online at https://www.editorialmanager.com/jsa/ , select VHPC as article type. While optional, we highly recommend registering your abstract. Please email your abstract to vhpc.dist@gmail.com and use "JSASI" as your subject line.

# URLs:

* Feel free to follow the following X/Twitter resources on the HPC Virtualization SI, the VHPC workshop, in-context HPC updates:

- VHPC Workshop X/Twitter https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://twitter.com/VHPCworkshop__;!!P1tgJ-3e!A9617H6HF1bGPpweXuAc1aOiGceVkNCxDP3TSPGelDwkDtLcAfxJeu0_HDGG9CYW72F5zCxX-cUKDztNzYxJ$ - Follow Link VHPC/HPC updates on X/Twitter https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://twitter.com/intent/follow?screen_name=VHPCworkshop__;!!P1tgJ-3e!A9617H6HF1bGPpweXuAc1aOiGceVkNCxDP3TSPGelDwkDtLcAfxJeu0_HDGG9CYW72F5zCxX-cUKD_1Vo1x8$ - X/Twitter HPC Virtualization Community https://twitter.com/i/communities/1700614991332688215

CfP pages:

- VHPC Special Issue https://vhpc.github.io/jsa_si/ - Journal of Systems Architecture Call for Papers https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-systems-architecture/about/call-for-papers#virtualization-in-high-performance-cloud-computing

* Abstract registration, paper submissions

- Elsevier Submission Link https://www.editorialmanager.com/jsa/ - Register HPC Virtualization Abstract Email <vhpc.dist@gmail.com?subject=JSASI>

Kind regards,

Tommaso Cucinotta, Michael Alexander, Anastassios Nanos