Call for Papers
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Workshop on Large-Scale System and Application Performance

(LSAP2009)

In conjunction with the 18-th International Symposium on High
Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-18)

Munich, Germany, June 9 or 10, 2009 http://www.lsap.org

*** Submission deadline: March 1, 2009 ***


MISSION

Over the last decade, computer systems and applications in everyday use
have grown to unprecedented scales. Large clusters serving millions of
search requests per day, grids executing large workflows and parameter
sweeps consisting of thousands of jobs, and supercomputers running complex
e-science applications, have now hundreds of thousands of processing cores.
In addition, clouds are quickly emerging as a large-scale computing
infrastructure. Peer-to-peer systems and centralized video distribution
systems that dominate the internet and complicated internet applications
such as massive multiplayer online games are used by millions of people
every day.

In view of this tremendous growth, understanding the performance of
large-scale computer systems and applications has become vital to
institutional, commercial, and private interests. This workshop solicits
original papers on performance evaluation methods, tools, and studies
focusing on the challenges of large scale, such as decentralization,
predictable performance, reliability, and scalability. It aims to bring
together system designers and researchers involved with the modeling and
performance evaluation of large-scale systems and applications.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Performance aspects of large-scale systems
- Performance aspects of large-scale applications
- Performance-oriented properties such as availability, reliability,
and scalability
- Workload characterization and modeling
- Mathematical modeling and analysis methods
- Simulation methods and tools
- Measurement methods and tools
- Performance case studies


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Submitted papers should be limited to 8 pages (including tables, images,
and references) and formatted according to the ACM SIGS Style.
Use the official HPDC conference submission site to submit your paper;
only pdf format is accepted. All papers will receive at least three
reviews. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors
to register for the workshop and present the paper. The authors of the
best paper in the workshop will receive a best-paper award.


PROCEEDINGS
The proceedings of the workshop will be published by ACM.


IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: March 1, 2009
Author notification: March 31, 2009
Final papers due: TBA (in April, 2009)
Workshop: June 9 or 10, 2009


SUBMISSION SITE
Official HPDC conference submission site,
https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/hpdc/


WORKSHOP WEBSITE
www.lsap2009.org


PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Dick Epema, Delft University of Technology, NL,
d.h.j.epema@tudelft.nl

Jose Moreira, IBM T.J. Watson Research Lab, USA,
jmoreira@us.ibm.com

Carey Williamson, University of Calgary, Canada,
carey@cpsc.ucalgary.ca


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Martin Arlitt, HP Labs, USA, and University of Calgary, CA
Peter Buchholz, University of Dortmund, Germany
Jon Howell, Microsoft Research, USA
Adriana Iamnitchi, University of South Florida, USA
Alexandru Iosup, Delft University of Technology, NL
Evgenia Smirni, College of William and Mary, USA
Swami Sivasubramanian, Amazon, USA
Allen Snavely, University of California, San Diego, USA
Denis Trystram, Labaratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble, FR


CONTACT
For further information please contact Dick Epema at d.h.j.epema@tudelft.nl.