[hpc-announce] Nov 30 Deadline, rolling abstract: Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (Elsevier JSA SI)

[Alexander, Michael]

Dear Colleagues,

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.

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Call for Papers
Special Issue: Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing
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, Apptainer, podman)
* 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: December 1, 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>
General information for submitting papers to JSA<https://www.elsevier.com/journals/journal-of-systems-architecture/1383-7621/guide-for-authors>

* 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 at gmail.com<mailto:vhpc.dist at gmail.com> and use "JSASI" as your subject line.

# URLs:
* You are cordially invited 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>
* Abstract registration, paper submissions:
·  Elsevier Submission Link<https://www.editorialmanager.com/jsa/>
·  Register HPC Virtualization Abstract Email<mailto:vhpc.dist at gmail.com?subject=JSASI>


Kind regards,

Tommaso Cucinotta, Michael Alexander, Anastassios Nanos