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-------- Original Message -------- Subject: WIOV '11 Call for Papers Submission Deadline Approaching Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:11:05 -0800 From: Lionel Garth Jones lgj@usenix.org To: info@muug.mb.ca, gedetil@muug.mb.ca

We are writing to remind you that the submission deadline for the 3rd Workshop on I/O Virtualization (WIOV '11) is quickly approaching. Please submit all work by Monday, March 21, 2011, at 11:59 p.m. PST.

http://www.usenix.org/wiov11/cfpb/

While I/O systems have a long history of using abstraction to shield applications from the intricacies of devices and storage systems, this workshop's focus is on the interplay of I/O with virtualization and cloud technologies. Our goal is to provide a forum to discuss the impact and challenges of I/O virtualization along multiple dimensions, including: the application domains in which virtualized solutions are used and the subsystems involved; platform or hardware support for I/O virtualization; the virtual machine monitor; the guest operating system; the processor, GPU, memory, and I/O subsystems. Also of interest are higher-level virtualization solutions, such as those concerning API virtualization, new virtual I/O APIs like those used for cloud storage, and innovative approaches to device virtualization in cloud computing and in the mobile domain.

The committee also encourages the submission of short papers to update WIOV 11 attendees on new efforts or approaches. Please label such submissions accordingly.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

* Hardware support for I/O virtualization * Novel I/O device architectures for virtualization * New software approaches to I/O virtualization * Hardware and software methods for I/O device emulation * Para-virtualized I/O device driver design for virtualization * Virtual machine monitors' support for I/O * Security and trust considerations for virtualized I/O, including hardware support * Energy-efficient I/O virtualization * Virtualized I/O in the cloud: API virtualization, challenges of large-scale I/O (performance, availability) * Virtualization mechanisms for datacenter networking * I/O monitoring and black box methods or system support for such functions

Paper submissions are due Monday, March 21, 2011, at 11:59 p.m. PST. Submissions guidelines and more information can be a found at http://www.usenix.org/wiov11/cfpb/

We look forward to receiving your submissions!

On behalf of the WIOV '11 Program Committee,

Sanjay Kumar, Intel Labs Himanshu Raj, Microsoft Research Karsten Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology WIOV '11 Program Co-Chairs wiov11chairs@usenix.org

----------------------------------------------------------------------- WIOV '11 Call for Papers 3rd Workshop on I/O Virtualization (WIOV '11) June 14, 2011, Portland, OR Part of the 2011 USENIX Federated Conferences Week, June 12-17, 2011 http://www.usenix.org/wiov11/cfpb/ Submission deadline: March 21, 2011, 11:59 p.m. PST ------------------------------------------------------------------------