Topics include, but are not limited to, the following subjects:

1/ Local and cloud resources
- Virtualization in cloud, cluster and grid HPC environments
- VM cloud, cluster load distribution algorithms
- Cloud, cluster and grid filesystems
- QoS and and service level guarantees
- Cloud programming models, APIs and databases
- Software as a service (SaaS)
- Cloud provisioning

2/ HPC and Data intensive computing on virtual resources
- Virtualized I/O
- VMMs and storage virtualization
- MPI, PVM on virtual machines
- High-performance network virtualization
- High-speed interconnects
- Hypervisor extensions
- Tools for cluster and grid computing
- Xen/other VMM cloud/cluster/grid tools
- Raw device access from VMs

3/ Efficiency and flexibility through virtualization
- Cloud reliability, fault-tolerance, and security
- Cloud load balancing
- VMs - power efficiency
- Network architectures for VM-based environments
- VMMs/Hypervisors
- Hardware support for virtualization
- Fault tolerant VM environments

4/ The price to pay
- Workload characterizations for VM-based environments
- Bottleneck management
- Metering
- VM-based cloud performance modeling
- Cloud security, access control and data integrity
- Performance management and tuning hosts and guest VMs
- VMM performance tuning on various load types
- Management of VM environments and clouds
- Deployment of VM-based environments

5/ Examples to follow
- Research and education use cases
- Cloud use cases