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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
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Paper submission (extended): February 15, 2015
Notification of acceptance: March 23, 2015
Final manuscript due: April 15, 2015


Submission Guideline
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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
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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


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