The Workshop on
Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC)
is an international forum bringing together researchers and
industrial practitioners facing the challenges posed by
virtualization in HPC/Cloud scenarios, 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 17th edition of VHPC will be held on June 2nd, jointly with
the ISC
High-Performance 2022 conference and exhibition in Hamburg
(Germany), and will feature two excellent industrial keynote
speakers
In addition to the general research topics mentioned below,
VHPC'22 encourages particularly contributions on the following focus
topics:
Workshop Overview
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 and heterogeneous infrastructures in a seamless
fashion to support the highly dynamic and diverse workloads and
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. More recently, Function as
a Service (Faas) and Serverless computing, leveraging on
lightweight virtualizaton and containerization solutions, widens
the spectrum of applications that can be deployed in a cloud
environment, especially in an HPC context. Here, HPC-provided
services can 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 bare-metal
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.
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 cloud computing.
Each topic encompasses aspects related to design/architecture,
management, performance management, modeling and
configuration/tooling:
Design / Architecture:
Management:
Performance Measurements and Modeling:
Configuration / Tooling:
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.
For more information and detailed paper submission instructions,
refer to the VHPC'22
webpage:
https://vhpc.org/
Important Dates
General Chairs
-- Tommaso Cucinotta, Associate Professor of Computer Engineering, PhD Head of the Real-Time Systems Laboratory (ReTiS) Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy http://retis.sssup.it/~tommaso/eng/research.html