CfP Journal Special Issue:
Virtualization in High-Performance CloudComputing
Journal of Systems Architecture (JSA) Elsevier
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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
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# 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/call-for-papers#virtualization-in-high-performance-cloud-computing
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.
General information for submitting papers to JSA can be found at:
https://www.elsevier.com/journals/journal-of-systems-architecture/1383-7621/guide-for-authors
# Updates
* https://twitter.com/VHPCworkshop
Kind regards,
Tommaso Cucinotta, Michael Alexander, Anastassios Nanos
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