Second International Workshop on Virtualization Performance:

Analysis, Characterization, and Tools (VPACT’09)

April 26, 2009

Boston, Massachusetts

To be held with the ISPASS 2009.

http://www.ece.rice.edu/~pjv/VPACT2009.html

Technical Program

 

 

Call for Papers

 

The workshop is intended as a venue for researchers and practitioners in academia and industry to present their unpublished results in the area of virtualization research.  Papers are solicited on topics including, but not limited to the following aspects of virtual machine (VM) execution:

 

  VM analytical performance modeling

  VM performance tools for tracing, profiling, and simulation

  VM benchmarking and performance metrics

  Workload characterization in a virtualized environment

  Evaluation of resource scheduling

  Models and metrics for new VM usages

  VM energy and power modeling

 

Submission Guidelines:

 

Authors are requested to submit unpublished papers of no more than 10 pages in pdf format. Each paper will be reviewed by several PC members for quality and relevance. Each submission should contain the author names, affiliation and contact information: email address, phone and mailing address. Papers should be sent as an attachment to: Kshitij.a.doshi@intel.com or agulati@vmware.com with title VPACT 2009 – Paper Submission before midnight March 20, 2009.

 

For VPACT’09, we plan to select a set of best papers, and the authors will have the option of having the extended versions of their paper appear in a special issue of Operating Systems Review in late 2009.

 

Important Dates:

Paper Submission Deadline: Extended to March 20, 2009 (See New Dates Below)      

             

Manuscript Submission: 

March 20, 2009

Notification of Acceptance:     

April 3, 2009

Camera Ready Submission: 

April 12, 2009

 

Workshop General Co-Chairs:

 

Peter Varman, Rice University

pjvster@gmail.com

Seetharami Seelam, IBM Research

sseelam@us.ibm.com

 

Program Co-Chairs:

 

Kshitij Doshi, Intel Corporation

Kshitij.a.doshi@intel.com

Ajay Gulati, VMware

agulati@vmware.com

 

Publicity Chair:

 

Seetharami Seelam, IBM Research

sseelam@us.ibm.com

 

Program Committee:

 

Irfan Ahmad

(VMware)

Doug Blough

(Georgia Tech)

Kshitij Doshi

(Intel)

Renato Figueiredo

(University of Florida)

Ajay Gulati

(VMware)

Elmoustapha Ould-ahmed-vall

(Intel)

Seetharami Seelam

(IBM Research)

Rich Uhlig

(Intel)

Bhuvan Urgaonkar

(Penn State)

Peter Varman

(Rice University)

 

Confidentiality of submissions is maintained during the review process. All rejected submissions will be kept confidential in perpetuity. All submitted materials for accepted submissions will be kept confidential until the workshop date, 26 April 2009. Submissions should contain no information or materials that are confidential at publication time.