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notes for Wednesday Oct 15

A day of odds and ends. The WIOV schedule should be going up today or tomorrow. Continued looking into the feasibility of a new project which will require coordination with an inordinate amount of people. Worked on a bunch of new patent disclosures. Hacked a bit on a new idea for IOTLB design until the serial port server stopped giving me love, and then went into paper reading mode.

Syndicated 2008-10-16 09:36:47 from Muli Ben-Yehuda

Reservoir research report available

Last year I helped conceive and write a proposal for an ambitious EU project called Reservoir: Resources and Services Virtualization without Barriers. IBM Research Report H-262, 2008, "RESERVOIR---An ICT Infrastructure for Reliable and Effective Delivery of Services as Utilities" is now available. This research report summarizes the (172 pages...) proposal and describes the key ideas underlying Reservoir.

Syndicated 2008-10-15 09:12:03 from Muli Ben-Yehuda

notes for Tuesday Oct 14

Lunch with the Tel-Aviv, business oriented, brunch of the family in their nice new house. In the evening didn't feel like doing much of anything; ended up de-cluttering my publications page.

Syndicated 2008-10-15 09:05:10 from Muli Ben-Yehuda

notes for Monday Oct 13

More work on the nap and vnic papers in the morning, making progress toward their respective deadlines. In the evening BBQ---fillet mignon and a good wine---with my folks in our garden.

Syndicated 2008-10-14 07:46:10 from Muli Ben-Yehuda

notes for Sunday Oct 12

Woke up bleary eyed, but settled into a productive day at the office debugging by proxy and reviewing a couple of draft papers (vnic and nap). In the evening got some work done on the secret project, too.

Syndicated 2008-10-12 19:41:46 from Muli Ben-Yehuda

For those who haven't seen it yet, the call for papers for the SYSTOR 2009 Israeli Experimental Systems Conference is out. Better get started working on those papers!

Syndicated 2008-10-12 11:39:31 from Muli Ben-Yehuda

notes for Satuday Oct 11th

Planned, prepared for and executed Yael's 2-year birthday. Splendid success, including several tipsy family members. Pictures to come. Cleaned up afterwards and eventually crashed. Woke back up at 2:30 AM and tried to convince Yael to go back to sleep until 4 AM. Re-crashed.

Syndicated 2008-10-12 06:52:40 from Muli Ben-Yehuda

Two years ago Orna and I embarked on one of the great projects of our lives.

Two years later, it is going splendidly.

Happy birthday, Yael, my little princess. You fill our lives with joy, every single day.

Syndicated 2008-10-11 06:56:15 from Muli Ben-Yehuda

I'm a-twitter

I was working from home today and didn't have anyone to talk to. So I finally bit the bullet and figured, why talk to *someone*, when I can talk to *everyone*? Hence, muliby on twitter. Leave a comment if you're on twitter.

Syndicated 2008-08-26 15:43:59 from Muli Ben-Yehuda

WIOV '08 CFP

It is my great pleasure to invite all of you to submit papers and participate in the First Workshop on I/O Virtualization (WIOV '08), to be held in conjunction with OSDI '08.


First Workshop on I/O Virtualization (WIOV '08)
December 10–11, 2008, San Diego, CA, USA
http://www.usenix.org/wiov08

WIOV '08 will be held in conjunction with the 8th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '08), December 8–10, 2008.

Overview

Over the past decade, the use of virtualization technology has grown rapidly. Moreover, it is being used in a variety of places, ranging from the data center to the desktop. Although this has spurred great advances in processor and memory virtualization in commodity hardware and virtualization software, I/O virtualization has received far less attention. However, both personal computers and servers may perform significant amounts of I/O. For example, efficient virtualization of graphics hardware has presented significant challenges on the desktop and efficient virtualization of network interfaces has limited server consolidation in the data center.

This workshop is meant to provide a forum to discuss challenges of I/O virtualization that span the virtual machine monitor, guest operating system, processor, memory subsystem, and I/O subsystem. In that spirit, we welcome papers that describe new challenges in I/O virtualization and papers that describe novel approaches to solving known problems in I/O virtualization. The final program will consist of both reviewed submissions and invited talks. The invited talks will focus on open problems in I/O virtualization and will be accessible to a broad audience.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

* Hardware support for I/O virtualization
* Novel I/O device architectures for virtualization
* Novel software approaches to I/O virtualization
* Software methods for I/O device emulation
* Para-virtualized I/O device driver design for virtualization
* Virtual machine monitors I/O subsystems

Important Dates

Submissions due: September 15, 2008
Notification to authors: October 3, 2008
Final files due: November 3, 2008

Workshop Organizers

Program Co-Chairs

Muli Ben-Yehuda, IBM Haifa Research Lab
Alan L. Cox, Rice University
Scott Rixner, Rice University

Program Committee

Eyal de Lara, University of Toronto
Jun Nakajima, Intel
Renato Santos, HP Labs
Karsten Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology
Pratap Subrahmanyam, VMware
Leendert van Doorn, AMD
Andrew Warfield, University of British Columbia

Submission Guidelines

Please submit an extended abstract in PDF format through the workshop submission web form, which will be available at http://www.usenix.org/wiov08 soon. The extended abstract should be no more than 4 double-column pages using 10-point type on 12-point leading ("single-spaced"). Figures and references are not included in this 4-page limit.

Syndicated 2008-08-07 02:08:49 from Muli Ben-Yehuda

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