[hpc-announce] Call for papers - DCPerf'15 at IEEE ICDCS 2015

[Peter Mueller]

  Call for Papers - Submission Due Date (extended): February 22, 2015

The 5th IEEE International Workshop on Data Center Performance (DCPerf'15)
                Columbus, Ohio, USA, June 29 - July 2, 2015
                 http://www.zurich.ibm.com/dcperf15
 
                      in conjunction with ICDCS'15:

The 35th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems 
                 http://icdcs-2015.cse.ohio-state.edu/

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 deploying 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.
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
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Topics include (but are not limited to) the following:
- System performance
  Hardware & software architecture
  Resource management & middleware
  Evaluation / modeling methodologies
  Empirical studies
- Communication 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 & 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 submission (extended):    February 22, 2015 (extended)
Notification of acceptance:        March 23, 2015
Final manuscript due:              April 15, 2015


Submission Guideline
====================

Manuscripts must be limited to 6 pages in IEEE 8.5"×11" double-column 
format. 
Accepted papers will be published in the combined ICDCS 2015 workshop 
proceedings and will be submitted to IEEE Xplore. Manuscripts should be 
submitted via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dcperf2015


TPC Chairs
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Robert Birke, IBM Research Zurich Lab, Switzerland
Len Wisniewski, IQSS, Harvard University, USA
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