ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL FOR PAPERS DCPerf 2011

The First International Workshop on Data Center Performance

DCPerf will be held in conjunction with the 31st Int'l Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2011)
June 24, 2011 Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

http://www.zurich.ibm/dcperf11

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Data centers are the backbone infrastructure for tomorrow’s information technology. Their advantages are efficient resource provisioning and low operational costs for supporting a wide range of computing needs, be it in business, scientific or mobile/pervasive environments. The high volume of mixed workloads and the diversity of services offered render the performance optimization of data centers ever more challenging. Moreover, important optimization criteria, such as scalability, reliability, manageability, power efficiency, area density, operating cost and many more, often are even mutually exclusive to some extent.
We seek submissions of 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. Focus will be on the data center system level aspects, data center communication, and virtualization & performance optimization.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to)

– Data Center Communication
Intra/Inter DC communication
Network Protocols
Security
– Data Center Performance
Power
Reliability
– Cloud Computing on Data Center
– Data Center Performance Evaluation
Data mining
Simulation
Modeling
– Data Center System
DC architectures
DC software/applications
Empirical studies
– Data Center Virtualization
Hardware support
Hypervisors
Virtualized storage
Important date
Paper Registration and Submission: Feb 10th, 2011
Notification of Acceptance: Mar 10th 2011
Final Manuscript Due: Mar 30 2011
Submission Guideline

Manuscripts must be limited to 6 pages up to 2 over-length pages in IEEE 8.5x11 format. Accepted papers will be published in the combined ICDCS 2011 workshop proceedings and will be available through IEEE Xplore. Best papers will be solicited for recommended submissions to IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL).


Organizing Committee

General chair
Peter Muller, IBM Zurich Research Lab, Switzerland

Organizer
Lydia Y. Chen, IBM Zurich Research Lab, Switzerland
Xi Zhang, Texas A&M University, USA

Steering Committee
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Penn State University, USA
Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Guoliang Xue, Arizona State University, USA
Martin Schmatz, IBM Research Zurich Lab, Switzerland
Alok Choudhary, Northwerstern University, USA