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<br><tt><font size=2> Call for Papers - Submission Due Date
(Extended): February 7, 2014</font></tt>
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<br><tt><font size=2>The 4th IEEE International Workshop on Data Center
Performance (DCPerf'14)</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>
Madrid, Spain, June 30 - July 3, 2014</font></tt>
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</font></tt><a href=http://www.zurich.ibm.com/dcperf14><tt><font size=2 color=blue>http://www.zurich.ibm.com/dcperf14</font></tt></a>
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in conjunction with ICDCS'14:</font></tt>
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<br><tt><font size=2>The 34th IEEE International Conference on Distributed
Computing Systems </font></tt>
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</font></tt><a href=http://lsd.ls.fi.upm.es/icdcs2014><tt><font size=2 color=blue>http://lsd.ls.fi.upm.es/icdcs2014</font></tt></a>
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<br><tt><font size=2>Data centers have become an integral part of the backbone
infrastructure for </font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>information technology. In particular, they provide
a cost efficient solution </font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>for provisioning a wide range of computing resources
in diverse environments </font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>such as business, scientific, and mobile. Due to the
rapid growth of user-</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>defined and user-generated programs, applications
and content, the complexity </font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>of deploying and operating data centers continues
to increase. Considering </font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>the high volume of mixed workloads, the diversity
of services offered, and </font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>the increasing mobility of users across geographically
distributed areas, the </font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>performance optimization of data centers has become
ever more necessary and </font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>challenging, especially in view of criteria such as
scalability, reliability, </font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>manageability, power efficiency, area density, and
operating costs.</font></tt>
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<br><tt><font size=2>The goal of this workshop is to promote a community-wide
discussion to find </font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>and identify suitable strategies to enable effective
and scalable data center </font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>performance optimizations. We are looking for papers
that present new </font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>techniques, introduce new methodologies, propose new
research directions, or </font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>discuss strategies for resolving open performance
problems of data centers.</font></tt>
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<br><tt><font size=2>Topics of Interest</font></tt>
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<br><tt><font size=2>Topics include (but are not limited to) the following:</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>- System performance</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2> Hardware & software architecture</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2> Resource management & middleware</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2> Evaluation / modeling methodologies</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2> Empirical studies</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>- Communication performance</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2> Intra- / inter-DC communication</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2> Open-flow based networks</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2> DC network architecture & protocols</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>- Storage and I/O performance</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2> Storage architecture</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2> I/O scalability and performance</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>- DC power and thermal issues</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2> Power and thermal modeling</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2> Power-constrained performance</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>- Security and robustness</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2> Performance of security solutions</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2> Intrusion & misconfiguration monitoring</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2> Variability & reliability modeling</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>- Virtualization and cloud computing</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2> Hypervisors & HW virtualization support</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2> Virtualized networking and storage</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2> Outsourcing issues</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2> Cloud scalability and management</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>- Performance of DC applications</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2> Cloud computing</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2> Content distribution</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2> Hadoop applications</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2> Real-time analytics</font></tt>
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<br><tt><font size=2>Important Dates</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>===============</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>Paper submission (extended): February
7, 2014</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>Notification of acceptance:
March 7, 2014</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>Final manuscript due:
March 21, 2014</font></tt>
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<br><tt><font size=2>Submission Guideline</font></tt>
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<br><tt><font size=2>Manuscripts must be limited to 6 pages in IEEE 8.5"×11"
double-column format.</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>Accepted papers will be published in the combined
ICDCS 2014 workshop proceedings</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>and will be available through IEEE Xplore. Manuscripts
should</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>be submitted via </font></tt><a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dcperf14"><tt><font size=2 color=blue>https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dcperf14</font></tt></a>
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