18th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing

Hamburg, Germany

The AMPERE project sponsored the 18th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing on 25 May 2023. The workshop was held in conjunction with the ISC 2023 High Performance Computing Conference in Hamburg.

Workshop co-chair, and AMPERE partner Tommaso Cucinotta from Scuola Superiore Santa'Anna delivered an invited talk on "Virtualization and Power Optimization of Embedded HPC Applications in AMPERE ".

Details on the workshop can be found : https://vhpc.github.io/

Workshop schedule

  • 08:45-09:00 Welcome Message from the VHPC’23 Chairs

  • 09:00-10:00 Keynote Talk

  • 10:00-11:00 Paper Session 1

    • Event-Driven End-to-End Testing For Containerized Applications. F. Nikolaidis, A. Chazapis, M. Marazakis, A. Bilas (FORTH, Hellas, and University of Crete, Greece)
    • Performance losses with virtualization: Comparing bare metal to VMs and containers. J. Baumgartner, C. Lillo, S. Rumley (University of Applied Sciences and Arts and DeepSquare.io, Switzerland)

  • 11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

  • 11:30-13:00 Invited Talks

    • Merging IT Services and HPC: Advanced Scheduling in Cloud Native. R. Rocha (Cern, Switzerland)
    • Static Partitioning or Automatic Tuning? Pinpointing the Best Configuration for Different Virtualization Scenarios, D. Faggioli (SuSE, Italy)
    • Virtualization and Power Optimization of Embedded HPC Applications in AMPERE. T. Cucinotta (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy)

  • 13:00-14:00 Lunch Break

  • 14:00-15:30 Paper Session 2

    • Improving live migration efficiency in QEMU: a paravirtualized approach. F. Storniolo, L. Leonardi, G. Lettieri (University of Pisa, Italy)
    • Accelerating Scientific Applications with the Quantum Edge: a Drug Design Use Case (invited paper). V. De Maio, I. Brandic (Technical University of Wien, Austria)
    • Real-Time Unikernels: a First Look. L. Abeni (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy)

  • 16:00-16:10 Concluding Remarks

  • 16:10-16:30 Coffee Break