Eighth Workshop on the Interaction amongst

Virtualization, Operating Systems and Computer Architecture

( WIVOSCA 2015 )

Held in conjunction with the 42nd Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA-42)


Portland, Oregon, USA

Call for Papers Alternate Formats ( html txt )

NEWS 04/05/2015: Deadline Extended to April 10 due to intermittent submission site unavailability.

NEWS 02/28/2015: Deadline Extended to April 05!

NEWS 03/11/2015: Paper Submission Site Open (Click Here)


Workshop Overview and Topics:

Operating systems (OS) constitute a major software component and are essential to any computing system. Commercial and server workloads such as online transaction processing, database, file/e-mail servers involve significant OS-level activity. The interactions between OS and emerging architectures (e.g. homogeneous and heterogeneous chip multiprocessors, simultaneous multithreading systems) / technology (e.g. hardware-assisted virtualization) are projected to continuously increase. In addition, the use of a wide variety of virtualization techniques, ranging from application-level virtualization to full-system virtualization, for providing application portability, managing power and performance, providing QoS guarantees and to effectively use the power of emerging architectures, has become prominent.

To optimize system performance/power/reliability/security, it is important to facilitate efficient interaction and cooperation amongst the three constantly evolving components - OS, virtualization and computer architecture.

This workshop focuses on characterizing, modeling, and optimizing the interaction between OS and hardware in the light of emerging architecture paradigms, workloads, and computing technology. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:
  • Architectural support for OS functionality and services
  • Architectural support for virtual machines and hypervisors
  • Hardware acceleration of OS and Virtualization services
  • OS and Virtualization support for emerging computer architectures
  • Implications of virtualization on OS design
  • Effect of OS/Virtualization on emerging architectures
  • System software-aware microarchitecture design
  • Leveraging OS/Virtualization to optimize reliability/thermal/power
  • Frameworks and tools for full-system simulation
  • Characterization of OS/Virtualization activity in emerging workloads
  • Performance, power, dependability, and security in OS/Virtualization
  • OS/Virtualization -intensive benchmark suites
  • Evaluation of the interaction/interference among OS/user
  • Mitigation of OS and Virtualization related execution bottlenecks
  • Architecture and Virtualization issues in data centers
  • Architecture and Virtualization support for cloud computing

Furthermore, the workshop aims at providing a forum for researchers, engineers, and students from academia and industry to discuss their latest research in virtualization, computer architecture and OS, to bring their ideas and research problems to the attention of others, and to obtain valuable and instant feedback from fellow researchers.


Workshop Co-Organizers

James Poe, Miami Dade College (jpoe@mdc.edu)
Girish Venkatasubramanian, Intel (girish.venkatasubramanian@intel.com)


Program Committee:

Mike Ferdman, Stony Brook - SUNY
Xin Fu, University of Kansas
Nilanjan Goswami, Apple Corporation
Clay Hughes, Florida State University
Ravi Iyer, Intel Labs
Chao Li, Shanghai Jiaotong Univesity
Vineeth Mekkat, Intel Corporation
Chrysostomos Nicopoulos, University of Cyprus
Andrew Rice, Queens College


Submission Guidelines:

Please follow this link to the paper submission site:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wivosca15

Note: Please be sure to confirm and finalize your submission after every modification to save your changes. All submissions can be modified/edited until the paper submission deadline. If you have any questions or problems, feel free to email James Poe.


Important Dates
  • Paper Submission: March 29, 2015 EXTENDED April 05, 2015!
  • Author Notification: April 24, 2015.
  • Camera-ready Version: May 08, 2015.



Please feel free to visit the website from last years workshop:
http://www.ideal.ece.ufl.edu/main.php?action=wiosca13