VTDC 2013 CALL FOR PAPERS
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The 7th International Workshop on
Virtualization Technologies in Distributed Computing
http://www.grid-appliance.org/wiki/index.php/VTDC13
New York, NY, USA

(Held in conjunction with HPDC 2013 -- The International Symposium
on High Performance Distributed Computing)


IMPORTANT DATES
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Abstract submission: February 4th, 2013 (11:59PM PST)
Paper submission: February 11th, 2013 (11:59PM PST)
Acceptance notification: March 18th, 2013
Final papers due: April 15th, 2013
Workshop: June 17-18, 2013


AIMS AND SCOPE
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The convergence of virtualization technologies and distributed computing is an exciting
subject and the aim of many research projects in both academia and industry.

Since the beginning of VTDC in 2006, a number of events dealing with virtualization and
cloud computing concerns have taken place. All of them have contributed to the improvement
of virtualization technologies leading to more complex and larger scale systems. However,
limiting the scope of Distributed Computing to Cloud platforms is not enough. For the
VTDC Steering Committee, Distributed Computing is larger than just Cloud platforms and the
VTDC workshop should continue to be a forum for the exchange of ideas and experiences on
the use of different virtualization technologies in distributed computing, including the
management of HPC, Data-Intensive or web hosting platforms as well as concerns dealing
with the virtualization of network and storage facilities.


Although the convergence of virtualization technologies and distributed computing has
been leading to exciting developments for almost ten years now, the use of virtual
environments is still far from reaching the maturity of more usual computing facilities
such as clusters or grids. Current solutions for operating virtual infrastructures are
rather "simple" management systems focusing on the contextualization of the virtual
machines, their deployments as well as their monitoring. The design and the implementation
of advanced mechanisms in charge of addressing particular concerns such as scalability,
reliability, and reactivity are either missing or not yet integrated in these systems


Building on previous successful as well as highly attended VTDC workshops, this 7th edition
will particularly consider innovative work addressing the aforementioned concerns with the
ultimate goal of delivering more advanced and integrated systems. Such systems might be seen
as mixes between IaaS and PaaS toolkits, enabling end-users to run large-scale applications
such as the HPC/HTC ones.

More precisely, topics of interest include:
- Virtualization for resource management and QoS assurance of distributed computing platforms
- Security aspects of using virtualization in a distributed environment
- Virtual networks
- Virtual data, storage as a service
- Fault tolerance in virtualized environments
- Virtualization in P2P systems
- Virtualization in HPC systems
- Virtualization-based adaptive/autonomic systems
- The creation and management of environments/appliances
- Performance modeling (applications and systems)
- Virtualization techniques for energy/thermal management
- Case studies of applications on virtualized platforms
- Deployment studies of virtualization technologies
- Tools relevant to virtualization
- Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
- Virtualization in data/computing centers


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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VTDC'13 invites authors to submit original and unpublished work. Submitted
papers should be limited to 8 pages (including tables, images, and references)
and formatted according to the ACM SIGS Style
(http://www.acm.org/publications/instructions_for_proceedings_volumes).
Document templates can be found at
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates. Only pdf format is
accepted. All papers will receive at least three reviews. Submission implies
the willingness of at least one of the authors to register for the workshop and
present the paper. Accepted papers will be included in the HPDC proceedings.

To submit a paper for VTDC 2013, please use the EasyChair
submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vtdc2013


ORGANIZERS
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General Chair:
- Frédéric Desprez, INRIA, France
http://graal.ens-lyon.fr/~desprez/

- Adrien Lèbre, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, FRANCE
http://www.emn.fr/x-info/alebre/

Program Chair:
- Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA
http://parashar.rutgers.edu/

Steering Committee:
- Jose A. B. Fortes, University of Florida, USA
- Kate Keahey, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory, USA
- Renato Figueiredo, University of Florida, USA
- Kartik Gopalan, Binghamton University, USA

Program Committee (TBD):
- Dilma M Da silva, Qualcomm, USA
- Peter Dinda, Northwestern University, USA
- Renato Figueiredo, University of Florida, USA
- Kartik Gopalan, Binghamton University, USA
- Fabien Hermenier, Sophia Antipolis University, France
- Ardalan Kangarlou, NetApp, USA
- Orran Krieger, Hariri Institute Boston University, USA
- John J. Lange, Pittsburgh University, USA
- Xiaolin Andy Li, University of Florida, USA
- Christine Morin, INRIA, France
- D. K. Panda, Ohio State University, USA
- Pradeep Padala, VMware, USA
- Indrajit Roy, HP Labs, USA
- Frederic Suter, IN2P3, France
- Xuanhua Shi, Huazhong University, China
- Mike Wray, HP Labs, Bristol, UK
- Dongyan Xu, Purdue University, USA
- Ming Zhao, University of Florida, USA