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2015 Xen Project Developer Summit Line-up Announced

Lars Kurth

Lars Kurth

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I am pleased to announce the schedule for the Xen Project Developer Summit. The event will take place in Seattle on August 17-18, 2015.
The Xen Project Developer Summit brings together its community of developers and power users. Each year the event features the latest developments, best practices, collaboration, product roadmap updates and future planning from developers who are leading the way in server density, million-node data centers, automotive, mobile, graphic-intensive workloads, cloud and enterprise security.
For the first time, Xen Project Developer Summit and KVM Forum will co-host a Hackathon on Aug. 18 aimed at fostering technical collaboration between the two leading open source hypervisors in IT today. KVM and Xen users and developers will have the opportunity to collaborate and delve into work on libvirt code. A co-hosted evening event will be held that night.
Following is a sampling of confirmed speakers and presentations to be discussed in Seattle:

  • Dario Faggioli, senior software engineer, Citrix, and Meng Xu, PhD Student, University of Pennsylvania, will co-present the state of scheduling in Xen and the hypervisor provides a set of schedulers, each one suited for specific use cases.
  • Sainath Grandhi, Core OS engineer, Intel will present Xen containers to run Docker container applications sandboxed in a small VM as an alternative to bare-metal containers, providing tighter security and resource isolation.
  • Julien Grall, software engineer, Citrix, will target developers making a product based on Xen ARM requiring device assignment.
  • Juergen Gross, Linux kernel developer, SUSE, will outline suggestions for a systems architecture that is much more fault tolerant against hardware and software failures.
  • Manish Jaggi, Xen/KVM hypervisor technical lead, Cavium, will talk about Xen support for ThunderX, a family of highly integrated, multi-core SoC processors based on 64-bit ARMv8 architecture, for data center and cloud applications.
  • Liu Jinsong, PM and RAS maintainer, Alibaba, will introduce live migration at AliCloud, summarizing the technical virtualization, network, and storage problems that need to be solved to make live migration work at AliCloud.
  • Mark Kraeling, product manager, GE Transportation, will talk about virtualizing the locomotive and how GE uses about how GE uses Xen for x86-based processors, and KVM for ARM-based processors.
  • Tamas Lengyel, security researcher at Novetta, University of Connecticut PhD student, will shed more light on current trends in virtualization security, pitfalls and new features coming in 4.6.
  • Wei Liu, Xen 4.6 release manager, Citrix, will give a status report on the upcoming Xen Project 4.6 release.
    Stefano Stabellini, senior principle software engineer, Citrix, will explain how to deploy OpenStack using the Xen Project hypervisor to run your VMs.
  • Zhi Wang, engineer, Intel, will provide a detailed update on the evolution of Intel Graphics Virtualization Technology for full GPU virtualization.
  • Konrad Wilk, software director, Oracle, will discuss the design and functionality of xSplice, which offers a method for live patching without requiring a system to reboot.
  • Marc Zyngier, kernel hacker, ARM, will share a hypervisor agnostic view of virtualization extensions added to the latest ARM architecture.

Birds of a Feather session and Discussions

Besides presentations, the developer summit will also provide an opportunity for in-depth interactive discussions (Birds of a Feather sessions), which allow deep interaction and collaboration between Xen Project developers and community members. These will happen in a second track alongside part of the main event. To submit a BoF, please send an email to community dot manager at xenproject dot org and chose a BoF slot, title and short description or fill out this wiki page.

Registration

For more information about Xen Project Developer Summit 2015, including how to register and to view the complete schedule, visit: events.linuxfoundation.org/events/xen-project-developer-summit.

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