T E C H N I C A L     P R O G R A M

 

 

1:30 – 1:45        Welcoming Remarks

 

 

 Session 1 (1:45 – 2:45)

 

1:45 – 2:15   SMP Virtualization Performance Evaluation

Gabriel Southern, David Hwang (George Mason University), Ronald Barnes (University of Oklahoma)

 

                          

 2:15 – 2:45  Improving Performance with Interrupt Coalescing for Virtual Machine Disk IO in VMware ESX Server

Irfan Ahmad, Ajay Gulati, Ali Mashtizadeh, Maxime Austruy (VMware, Inc.)

 

 2:45 – 3:15   Addressing Methodological Challenges in Virtualization Performance Benchmarking

Kshitij Doshi, Ashok Emani, Tom Adelmeyer (Intel Corporation)

                          

 

 3:15 – 3:45    Break

Session 2 (3:45 – 5:15)

 

3:45 – 4:15    Storage Workload Characterization and Consolidation in Virtualized Environments

Ajay Gulati, Chethan Kumar, Irfan Ahmad ( VMware, Inc)

 

4:15 – 4:45    Optimizing Programs Specifically For a Virtual Machine

Stanislav Bratanov, Roman Belenov, Nikita Manovich (Intel Corporation)

 

4:45 – 5:15    A Genetic Algorithm to Solve the Virtual Machines Resources Allocation Problems in Multi-tier                        Distributed Systems

                          Paolo Campegiani (Universit`a di Roma)

 

 

5:15 – 5:25     Closing Remarks and Feedback

 

 

Second International Workshop on Virtualization Performance: Analysis, Characterization, and Tools (VPACT 2009)