IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on End-to-end
Virtualization and Grid Management
EVGM’07
October 29-30, 2007
Part of Manweek 2007: http://www.manweek.org
PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS
Virtualization allows layer n (upper layer) to function
independently and effectively without being intrinsically tied to layer n-1
(lower layer). In OS virtualization, guest operating systems are isolated from
physical computational resources. In server virtualization, application servers
are isolated from physical server resources. In network virtualization, network
services or applications are isolated from physical network resources. One of
the major features of Grids is the sharing of heterogeneous resources, which
can be facilitated by various levels of virtualization. In other words, Grids
should provide holistic or end-to-end virtualization. It is obvious that proper
resource management is key to providing effective virtualization. However, resource
management for virtualization is a challenge (as opposed to typical resource
management) in that there is no trivial way of virtualizing resources and
presenting virtualized resources to the upper layers. It is even a bigger
challenge when end-to-end (E2E) virtualization is considered, for example, when
OS and server virtualization interplay with storage and network virtualization
for providing an effective E2E virtualized environment.
This workshop will offer a unique opportunity for
researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas and experiences on problems,
challenges, solutions and potential future research, as well as development
issues, in this new field of E2E Virtualization and Grid Management. In
addition to paper presentations, the workshop provides an intimate setting for
discussion and debate through panels and group work.
The authors are encouraged to submit original papers on
topics related to the concepts described above, including, but not limited to:
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OS resource management for virtualization (OS Virtualization)
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Server resource management for virtualization (Server Virtualization)
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Application resource management for virtualization (Application Virtualization)
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Storage resource management for virtualization (Storage Virtualization)
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Network resource management for virtualization (Network Virtualization)
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Network Management resource management for virtualization (NM Virtualization)
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Heterogeneous Grid VO resource management for virtualization (Grid
Virtualization)
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Interplay of various virtualization layers
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Virtual resource scheduling
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Virtual resource discovery
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Virtual resource monitoring
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Virtualization in clusters and high-performance computing environments
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Virtualization for ERP, CRM, Healthcare, Financial applications
Workshop Co-chairs
Silvia Figueira,
Masum Z. Hasan,
Important Dates
Submission deadline: May 13, 2007
Notification of acceptance: July 6, 2007
Camera-ready: August 2, 2007
Paper Submission
Authors are requested to submit either long or short papers,
strictly in LNCS format:
- Long papers (up to 10 single-spaced
single-column pages)
- Short papers describing work-in-progress
(up to 4 pages)
Submissions exceeding the above mentioned page limits
will not be reviewed. Papers must be submitted
electronically through the JEMS conference
management system at https://jems.sbc.org.br/evgm2007 (only
PDF files are permitted).
--Masum
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~zmhasan/
http://wwwin-people.cisco.com/masum/ (Intranet)