From tccc Wed Dec 14 12:43:07 2011 From: Robert Birke Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:43:07 +0000 To: tccc Subject: [Tccc] CFP: ICDCS'12 Workshop on Data Center Performance (DCPerf) Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=tccc&m=132936294038259 (We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this email) *************************************************************************** ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL FOR PAPERS DCPerf 2012 The 2nd international workshop on Data Center Performance DCPerf will be held in conjunction with the 32nd Int'l Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2012) June 21st, 2012, Macau, China http://www.zurich.ibm.com/dcperf12 *************************************************************************** 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 for business, scientific, or mobile purposes. Owing to the rapid growth of user-defined and user-generated programs, applications and content, the complexity of deploying and operating data centers is expected 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 concerning criteria such as scalability, reliability, manageability, power efficiency, area density, and operating costs. As a result, adaptive and autonomic optimization strategies are essential for 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 at all layers of a data center. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) Data center communication Intra/Inter DC communication Network Protocols Security Data center performance Power/Reliability Performance evaluation/modeling Data center systems DC architectures Resource allocation Content distribution Empirical studies Data center virtualization Hardware support Hypervisors Virtualized storage Data center applications Cloud computing Content distribution Hadoop applications Important dates Paper Registration and Submission: Jan 30th, 2012 Notification of Acceptance: Mar 7th, 2012 Final Manuscript Due: Mar 30th, 2012 Submission Guideline Manuscripts must be limited to 6 pages plus up to 2 over-length pages in IEEE 8.5x11 format. Accepted papers will be published in the combined ICDCS 2012 workshop proceedings and will be available through IEEE Xplore. Submission link: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dcperf12 Organizing Committee General chair Thomas Michael Bohnert, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland TPC co-Chairs Lydia Y. Chen, IBM Research - Zurich Laboratory, Switzerland Florin Ciucu, Telekom Innovation Laboratories / TU Berlin, Germany Publicity and publication chair: Robert Birke, IBM Research - Zurich Laboratory, Switzerland Steering Committee Peter Müller, IBM Research - Zurich Laboratory, Switzerland Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Alok Choudhary, Northwerstern University, USA Martin Schmatz, IBM Research - Zurich Laboratory, Switzerland Anand Sivasubramaniam, Penn State University, USA Larry Xue, Arizona State University, USA