Call for Papers
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Workshop on Virtualization Technologies in Distributed Computing (VTDC 2010)

in conjunction with the 19-th International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-19)

Chicago, Illinois, USA, June 22, 2010
http://www.grid-appliance.org/wiki/index.php/VTDC10

WORKSHOP SCOPE

Virtualization has proven to be a powerful enabler in the field of distributed computing and has led to the emergence of the cloud computing paradigm and the provisioning of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). This new paradigm raises challenges ranging from performance evaluation of IaaS platforms, through new methods of resource management including providing Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and energy- and cost-efficient schedules, to the emergence of supporting technologies such as virtual appliance management.

For the last three years, the VTDC workshop has served as a forum for the exchange of ideas and experiences studying the challenges and opportunities created by IaaS/cloud computing and virtualization technologies. VTDC brings together researchers in academia and industry who are involved in research and development on resource virtualization technologies and on techniques applied to the management of virtualized environments in distributed systems.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

VTDC 2010 topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
* Virtualization in data centers
* Virtualization for resource management and QoS assurance
* Security aspects of using virtualization in a distributed environment
* Virtual networks
* Virtual data, storage as a service
* Fault tolerance in virtualized environments
* Virtualization in P2P systems
* Virtualization-based adaptive/autonomic systems
* The creation and management of environments/appliances
* Virtualization technologies
* Performance modeling (applications and systems)
* Virtualization techniques for energy/thermal management
* Case studies of applications on IaaS platforms
* Deployment studies of virtualization technologies
* Tools relevant to virtualization

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Submitted papers should be limited to 8 pages (including tables, images, and references) and should be formatted according to the ACM SIGS Style. Please use the official HPDC conference submission site to submit your paper; only pdf format is accepted. All papers will receive at least three reviews.
Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register
or the workshop and present the paper. The authors of the best paper in the workshop will receive a best-paper award.

PROCEEDINGS

The proceedings of the workshop will be published by the ACM.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: March 1, 2010 (11:59 PM EST)
Author notification: March 26, 2010
Final papers due: April 14, 2010
Workshop: June 22, 2010

SUBMISSION SITE

Official HPDC conference submission site,
https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/hpdc/

WORKSHOP WEBSITE

http://www.grid-appliance.org/wiki/index.php/VTDC10

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

General Chair: Renato Figueiredo, University of Florida

Program Chair: Frederic Desprez, INRIA

Steering Committee: Jose A. B. Fortes, University of Florida, Kate Keahey, University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

- James Broberg, The University of Melbourne, Australia
- Franck Cappello, INRIA and University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
- Dilma M Da silva, IBM Research, USA
- Peter Dinda, Northwestern University, USA
- Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory & The University of Chicago, USA
- Sebastien Goasguen, Clemson University, USA
- Kartik Gopalan, Computer Science, State University of New York at Binghamton, USA
- Sverre Jarp, CERN, Switzerland
- Thilo Kielmann, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherland
- Jack Lange, Northwestern University, USA
- Laurent Lefèvre, INRIA, University of Lyon, France
- Ignacio Lorente, DSA-Research, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
- Norbert Meyer, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland
- Christine MORIN, INRIA Rennes - Bretagne Atlantique, France
- D. K. Panda, The Ohio State University, USA
- Matei Ripeanu, University of British Columbia, Canada
- Paul Ruth, University of Mississippi, USA
- Kyung D Ryu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
- Chris Samuel, The Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing, Australia
- Frank Siebenlist, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
- Frederic Suter, CC IN2P3 / CNRS, France
- Dongyan Xu, Purdue University, USA
- Mike Wray, HP Labs, Bristol, UK
- Mazin Yousif, IBM Corporation, USA
- Ming Zhao, Florida International University, USA

CONTACT

For further information please contact
Frederic.Desprez@inria.fr or renato@acis.ufl.edu
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