[hpc-announce] Workshop on Datacenter Performance (DCPerf'13)--Extended deadline Feb 4th

[Lydia Chen]

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             Call for Papers -Extended Submission Due Date: February 4,
2013


The 3nd IEEE International Workshop on Data Center Performance (DCPerf'13)
                           Philadelphia, USA, July 8-11, 2013
                      http://www.zurich.ibm.com/dcperf13

                              in conjunction with

   The 33nd International IEEE Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
(ICDCS'13)
                         http://www.temple.edu/cis/icdcs2013/



Data centers have become an integral part of the backbone infrastructure
for
information technology. In particular, they provide a cost efficient
solution
for provisioning a wide range of computing resources in diverse
environments
such as business, scientific, and mobile. Due to the rapid growth of
user-defined
and user-generated programs, applications and content, the complexity of d
eploying and operating data centers continues to increase. Considering the
high
volume of mixed workloads, the diversity of services offered, and the
increasing
mobility of users across geographically distributed areas, the performance
optimization of data centers has become ever more necessary and
challenging,
especially in view of criteria such as scalability, reliability,
manageability,
power efficiency, area density, and operating costs. As a result, adaptive
and
autonomic optimization strategies are essential in managing the
multi-dimensional
complexity of data center performance.
The goal of this workshop is to promote a community-wide discussion to find
and
identify suitable strategies to enable effective and scalable data center
performance
optimizations. We are looking for papers that present new techniques,
introduce new
methodologies, propose new research directions, or discuss strategies for
resolving
open performance problems of data centers.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to)
- System Performance
  Hardware & Software Architecture
  Resource management & middleware
  Evaluation/modeling methodologies
  Empirical studies
- Communications Performance
  Intra/Inter DC communication
  Open-flow based networks
  DC Network architecture & protocols
- Storage and I/O Performance
  Storage architecture
  I/O scalability and performance
- DC power and thermal issues
  Power and Thermal modeling
  Power constrained performance
- Security and Robustness
  Performance of Security solutions
  Intrusion & misconfiguration monitoring
  Variability and Reliability modeling
- Virtualization and Cloud Computing
  Hypervisors & HW virtualization support
  Virtualized networking and storage
  Outsourcing issues
  Cloud scalability and management
- Performance of  DC Applications
  Cloud computing
  Content distribution
  Hadoop applications
  Real-time analytics

Important dates
Paper Registration and Submission(Extended):      February 4, 2013
Notification of Acceptance: 		 		        March 04, 2013
Final Manuscript Due: 		 		  	       March 25, 2013

Submission Guideline
Manuscripts must be limited to 6 pages plus up to 1 over-length pages in
IEEE 8.5x11 format. Accepted papers will be published in the combined ICDCS
2013
Workshop proceedings and will be available through IEEE Xplore. Manuscripts
should
be submitted via https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=dcperf13

Organizing CommitteeGeneral Chair
Neeli R. Prasad, Aalborg University, Denmark

TPC Chair
Krishna Kant, George Mason University, VA, USA
Lydia Y. Chen, IBM Zurich Research Lab, Switzerland

Steering Committee
Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong; Alok Choudhary,
Northwerstern University, USA;
Peter Muller, IBM Research Zurich Lab, Switzerland; Martin Schmatz, IBM
Research Zurich Lab, Switzerland;
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Penn State University, USA; Larry Xue, Arizona State
University, USA