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

- Virtualization in cloud, cluster and grid environments
- VM-based cloud performance modeling
- Workload characterizations for VM-based environments
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Cloud reliability, fault-tolerance, and security
- Cloud, cluster and grid filesystems
- QoS and and service levels
- Cross-layer VM optimizations
- Virtualized I/O and storage
- Virtualization and HPC architectures including NUMA
- System and process/bytecode VM convergence
- Paravirtualized driver development
- Research and education use cases
- VM cloud, cluster distribution algorithms
- MPI on virtual machines and clouds
- Cloud frameworks and API sets
- Checkpointing of large compute jobs
- Cloud load balancing
- Accelerator virtualization
- Instrumentation interfaces and languages
- Hardware support for virtualization
- High-performance network virtualization
- Auto-tuning of VMM and VM parameters 
- High-speed interconnects
- Hypervisor extensions and tools for cluster and grid computing
- VMMs/Hypervisors
- Cloud use cases including optimizations
- Performance modeling
- Fault tolerant VM environments
- VMM performance tuning on various load types
- Cloud provisioning
- Virtual machine monitor platforms
- Pass-through VM device access
- Management, deployment of VM-based environments