[HTCondor-users] CFP: IEEE ICDCS'14 Workshop on Data Center Performance (DCPerf'14) (due on Jan 24)

[Robert Birke <birke@xxxxxxxx>]

           Call for Papers - Submission Due Date: January 24, 2014

The 4th IEEE International Workshop on Data Center Performance (DCPerf'14)
                Madrid, Spain, June 30 - July 3, 2014
                 http://www.zurich.ibm.com/dcperf14

                        in conjunction with ICDCS'14:

The 34th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
                 http://lsd.ls.fi.upm.es/icdcs2014

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:                January 24, 2014
Notification of acceptance:         March 7, 2014
Final manuscript due:              March 21, 2014


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

Manuscripts must be limited to 6 pages in IEEE 8.5"Ã11" double-column format.
Accepted papers will be published in the combined ICDCS 2014 workshop
proceedings
and will be available through IEEE Xplore. Manuscripts should
be submitted via https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dcperf14


General Chair
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Dilip Krishnaswamy, IBM Research Labs Bangalore, India


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


Publicity Chair
===============

Marco Beccuti, Università di Torino, Italy


Program Committee
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Souheib Baarir, Università Pierre et Marie Curie, France
Gianfranco Balbo, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy
Gergely BiczÃk, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Luca Bortolussi, University of Trieste, Italy
Andrea Bracciali, University of Stirling, UK
Giuliano Casale, Imperial College London, UK
Herve Chabanne, Morpho, France
Salvatore Distefano, University of Messina, Italy
Victor Govindaswamy, Texas A&M University-Texarkana, USA
Peng He, Ciena, USA
Jeong-Hyon Hwang, State University of New York - Albany, USA
Samee Khan, North Dakota State University, USA
Masayuki Murata, 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
Sriram Sankar, Microsoft, USA
Sanjeev Setia, George Mason University, USA
Seonghan Shin, AIST, Japan
Marko VukoliÄ, Eurecom, France
Miki Yamamoto, Kansai University, Japan
Yanjiang Yang, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Shucheng Yu, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA


Steering Committee
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Jian-Nong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Alok Choudhary, Northwestern University, USA
Peter Mueller, IBM Research Zurich Lab, Switzerland
Martin Schmatz, IBM Research Zurich Lab, Switzerland
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Penn State University, USA
Larry Xue, Arizona State University, USA

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