Thursday 12 February 2015

CFP - Workshop on Data Center Performance (DCPerf'15)

   Call for Papers - Submission Due Date (extended): February 15, 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 15, 2015 
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 available through IEEE Xplore. Manuscripts should be 
submitted via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dcperf2015 


TPC Chairs 
========== 

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


Program Committee 
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Souheib Baarir, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France 
Gergely Biczók, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway 
Luca Bortolussi, University of Trieste, Italy 
Andrea Bracciali, University of Stirling, UK 
Herve Chabanne, Morpho, France 
Salvatore Distefano, University of Messina, Italy 
Victor Govindaswamy, Texas A&M University-Texarkana, USA 
Peng He, Ciena, USA 
Samee Khan, North Dakota State University, USA 
Masayuki Murata, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology Osaka University, Japan 
Panagiotis Papadimitriou, Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany 
Juan F. Perez, Imperial College London, UK 
Alma Riska, College of William and Mary, USA 
Roberto Rojas-Cessa, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA 
Sanjeev Setia, George Mason University, USA 
Seonghan Shin, AIST, Japan 
Christopher Stewart, Ohio State University, USA 
Marko Vukolić, Eurecom, France 
Jun Wang, University of Central Florida, USA 
Miki Yamamoto, Kansai University, Japan 
Yanjiang Yang, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
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