I am currently working on the Xen.org Community Plans for 2009 Xen Summits and I wanted to share my thoughts with the community to get feedback on my ideas. In the past, Xen Summits have been held every 9 months with the majority of them being in North America. It is my intention, as you […]
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Summit Tokyo (Asia) 2008 is fast approaching and the Xen Summit Program Committee is ready to review and accept your topic proposal for the event. The Committee is actively reviewing topics so please send your topic for consideration to stephen.spector@xen.org in either English or Japanese. All submitted topics will be reviewed by the Program Committee […]
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The Program Committee has discussed the choice of primary language for the upcoming event in Tokyo and has made a change from the information I posted last week. The event will now be in English with Japanese translators available to allow for a larger global audience to attend. IT events in Japan are now being […]
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Xen Summit Tokyo (Asia) 2008 has completed the formation of a Program Committee and is actively looking for speakers interested in presenting their Xen work at this event. This 2-day event, November 20 & 21 at Fujitsu’s Labs, will be an in-depth examination of recent research, software development, and customer deployments of the open source […]
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Yoshi Tamura from the NTT Cyber Space Laboratories in Japan gave a very interesting presentation on Kemari. Kemari is a new approach to cluster systems that synchronize VMs for fault tolerance without modifying neither hardware nor applications.
Since virtualization puts an abstract layer between hardware and operating system, it also offers the possibility to migrate virtual […]
Filed under: Community, Xen Development, Xen Summit by Björn Brundert
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Xen Summit Tokyo (Asia) sponsored by Fujitsu is fast approaching and I am calling for Program Committee volunteers interested in reviewing all submitted topics and creating the event agenda. I hope to have at least 7 people on the Program Committee for this event so if you are interested, please send me your contract information […]
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Andres Lagar-Cavilla from the University of Toronto presented a unique methodology to create “instant” DomUs within a cloud on demand. His project, Snowflock, is detailed below:
Snowflock is our prototype implementation of the Impromptu Cluster (IC) abstraction. In an IC, an application encapsulated inside a virtual machine (VM) is swiftly […]
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Netronome presented two interesting topics at Xen Summit:
Derek McAuley: Virtualization in Network Appliances (slides to be posted soon) & Rolf Neugebauer: Network Topology Offload
They also published a press release if you want more information: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/netronome-to-share-vision-for,442778.shtml
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I have updated the Xen.org site and created a new Xen Summit Boston page: http://www.xen.org/xensummit/xensummit_summer_2008.html
I am still collecting presentation slides and converting them to pdf so not everything is live yet. I will also be adding the videos of the presentations shortly but I need a bit more bandwitdh to make that happen so […]
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Here are some more pictures from Day 2…
http://richcrusco-live.spaces.live.com/photos/cns!964334461AD1B983!374/
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