The Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC) aims to bring together researchers and industrial practitioners facing the challenges posed by virtualization in HPC/Cloud scenarios in order to foster discussion, collaboration, mutual exchange of knowledge and experience, enabling research to ultimately provide novel solutions for virtualized computing systems. The workshop features paper presentations, discussion sessions, and lightning talks. Accepted papers will be published in a Springer LNCS volume.
This year, we are calling the timely topic of virtualization in support of high-memory LLM training workloads including, but not limited to:
GPU hypervisor memory virtualization
Flat CPU/GPU memory page tables/TLB
Storage/filesystem to virtual memory mapped approaches
Distributed memory virtualization
Memory compression and reduction techniques
Out-of-core training algorithms
Memory-efficient allocation and data formats
Benchmarking and profiling tools
Real-world examples and applications of virtualization techniques in LLM training scenarios
In addition to the regular topic areas of HPC virtualization: design/architecture, management, performance management, modeling and configuration/tooling:
Container Platforms (Kubernetes, Docker, Nitro/Firecracker, …) and Unikernel Frameworks
Composable Lightweight Application Components and Lambda / Function-as-a-Service Paradigms
Latency Control, Warm/Cold-start issues and Data/Container Placement in Heterogeneous Environments
Energy-efficiency and Service Orchestration in Virtualized Cloud & HPC Infrastructures
The workshop will be composed of 20 min paper presentations, each followed by 10 min discussion sessions, plus lightning talks that are limited to 5 minutes. Presentations may be accompanied by interactive demonstrations. For more information and detailed paper submission instructions, refer to the VHPC'24 webpage.
May 6th, 2024: Paper submission deadline (Springer LNCS)
Jun 20th, 2024: Acceptance notification
Jul 1st, 2024: Camera-ready version due
Aug 26th-27th, 2024: Workshop Day
Michael Alexander (chair), University of Vienna, Austria
Anastassios Nanos (co-chair), Nubificus Ltd., UK
Tommaso Cucinotta (co-chair), Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
Remo Andreoli, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
The workshop will be held in conjunction with the International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2024), on Aug 26th-27th, 2024, in Madrid, Spain.
The VHPC co-chairs