[ieeetcsc-discuss] CFP - MANWEEK / EVGM'07

[Silvia Figueira]

IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on End-to-end Virtualization and Grid 
Management 

EVGM'07 

October 29-30, 2007 

Silicon Valley, California, USA 

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: 

* OS resource management for virtualization (OS Virtualization) 

* Server resource management for virtualization (Server Virtualization) 

* Application resource management for virtualization  (Application Virtualization) 

* Storage resource management for virtualization (Storage  Virtualization) 

* Network resource management for virtualization (Network  Virtualization) 

* Network Management resource management for virtualization  (NM Virtualization) 

* Heterogeneous Grid VO resource management for virtualization  (Grid Virtualization) 

* Interplay of various virtualization layers 

* Virtual resource scheduling 

* Virtual resource discovery 

* Virtual resource monitoring 

* Virtualization in clusters and high-performance computing  environments 

* Virtualization for ERP, CRM, Healthcare, Financial  applications 





Workshop Co-chairs 

Silvia Figueira, Santa Clara University, USA 

Masum Z. Hasan, Cisco, USA 



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).