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Workshop on Mirco Architectural Support for Virtualization,
Data Center Computing, and Clouds

In Conjunction with MICRO 2010
Atlanta, GA, USA
Questions: masvdc2010@gmail.com
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CALL FOR PAPERS
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System virtualization is rapidly becoming an enabling technique for many
computing areas. System virtualization has been applied throughout
the enterprise, IT organizations, clouds, and in the home, deployed in a wide
range of devices from supercomputers, high-end servers, corporate
workstations/laptops, to mobile devices and virtual appliances. This is
made possible due to the availability of hardware assisted virtualiztion
technology that can scale from booklet, embedded system, to high-end servers.
Advantages of system virtualization include, improved resource utilization
and manageability in data centers/clouds, more available and dependable IT
services, faster deployment of services and infrastructure, energy savings,
dramatically improved security for servers and mobile devices. In the era of
cloud computing and pervasive intelligent embedded systems, practitioners
and researchers have to address new challenges and requirements in order
to meet the ever-growing demands for better resource sharing, more energy savings,
better scalability, improved security and dependability.

MASVDC is intended to bring together researchers, developers, and practitioners
from academia and industry, to share practical implementations/experiences
related to virtualization, data center, and cloud support at micro architecture
and/or system level, and to discuss future trends in research and applications.

To that end, papers are solicited from the areas, including, but not limited to:

- Micro architectural and/or system support for advanced I/O virtualization
and I/O resource sharing

- Embedded and mobile system virtualization

- Micro architectural support for data center and cloud computing

- Multi-core/many-core processor virtualization and support for multi-core

guest OSes

- Performance measurement, modeling, characterization, and analysis

- Support for green data centers and power efficient virtualization

- Power measurement, characterization, analysis, and modeling

- Support for virtualization and data center security and/or dependability

- Benchmarks and benchmarking

- Interaction between system and micro-architecture

- Support for virtual server consolidation and migration

- Simulation, validation, and verification tools

- Experiences with real systems

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
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Karsten Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology
David Kaeli, Northeastern University
Weidong Shi, Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Muli Ben-Yehuda, IBM, Haifa
Kshitij A. Doshi, Intel, Arizona
Renato J. Figueiredo, University of Florida
Ada Gavrilovska, Georgia Institute of Technology
Ajay Gulati, VMWare
Xuxian Jiang, North Carolina State
David Kaeli, Northeastern University
Sanjay Kumar, Intel
H. Andrés Lagar-Cavilla, AT & T Research
Hsien-Hsin Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology
Ripal Nathuji, Microsoft Research
ElMoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Intel
Dhabaleswar Panda, Ohio State University
Kevin Pedretti, Sandia National Lab
Patricia Sagmeister, IBM, Zurich
Benjamin Serebrin, AMD
Weidong Shi, Nokia Research Center
Yoshio Turner, HP Lab
Chuck Yoo, Korea University
Ming Zhao, Florida International University

IMPORTANT DATES
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3 Page Extended Abstract: Oct 11, 2010
Acceptance Notification: Oct 25, 2010
Final Papers Due: Nov 15, 2010