VHPC 2020 : 15th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing

Topics include but are not limited to:

• HPC orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Virtualizing Kubernetes for HPC
• Deployment paradigms
• Multitenancy
• Serverless
• Declerative data center integration
• Network provisioning
• Storage
• OCI i.a. images
• Isolation/security
• Containerizing Scientific Codes
• Building
• Deploying
• Securing
• Storage
• Monitoring
• Use case for containerizing HPC codes: Climate model containers for portability, reproducibility, traceability, immutability, provenance, data & software preservation
• Podman: end-to-end Docker alternative container environment & use-cases
• Creating, Running containers as non-root (rootless)
• Running rootless containers with MPI
• Container live migration
• Running containers in restricted environments without setuid
• Kubernetes Batch
• Scheduling, job management
• Execution paradigm - workflow
• Data management
• Deployment paradigms
• Multi-cluster/scalability
• Performance improvement
• Workflow / execution paradigm
• Networking
• Software defined networks and network virtualization
• New virtualization NICs/Nitro alike ASICs for the data center?
• Kubernetes SDN policy (Calico i.a.)
• Kubernetes network provisioning (Flannel i.a.)
• Lightweight Virtualization
• Micro VMMs (Rust-VMM, Firecracker, solo5)
• New virtualization NICs/Nitro alike ASICs for the data center?
• Kubernetes SDN policy (Calico i.a.)
• Kubernetes network provisioning (Flannel i.a.)
• Unikernels / LibOS
• Performance, efficiency, utilization, security
• Build procedure, application porting, re-use of existing components, and tooling
• Monitoring, running, orchestrating, live cycle management
• Deployment and operational costs
• Architecture and platform ports
• Hardware virtualization and accelerators with Unikernels/LibOSes
• Use cases and experience
• Composable HPC microservices
• Processor Virtualization
• RISC-V hypervisor extensions
• RISC-V Hypervisor ports
• EPI
• HPC Storage in Virtualization
• HPC container storage
• Cloud-native storage
• Hypervisors in storage virtualization
• Lightweight Virtualization
• Micro VMMs (Rust-VMM, Firecracker, solo5)
• Xen
• RISC-V Hypervisor ports
• Rvirt
• Cloud Hypervisor
• HW Accelerators, including GPUs, FPGAs, AI, and others
• State-of-practice/art, including transition to cloud
• Frameworks, system software
• Programming models, runtime systems, and APIs to facilitate cloud adoption
• Edge use-cases
• Frameworks, system software