ICPE 2017
8th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering
Sponsored by ACM SIGMETRICS, SIGSOFT, and SPEC RG
L'Aquila, Italy
April 22-27, 2017
https://icpe2017.spec.org/
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The goal of the International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) is
to integrate theory and practice in the field of performance engineering by
providing a forum for sharing ideas and experiences between industry and
academia. Nowadays, complex systems of all types, like Web-based systems, data
centers and cloud infrastructures, social networks, peer-to-peer, mobile and
wireless systems, cyber-physical systems, the Internet of Things, real-time and
embedded systems, have increasingly distributed and dynamic system
architectures that provide high flexibility, however, also increase the
complexity of managing end-to-end application performance.
ICPE brings together researchers and industry practitioners to share and
present their experiences, discuss challenges, and report state-of-the-art and
in-progress research on performance engineering of software and systems,
including performance measurement, modeling, benchmark design, and run-time
performance management. The focus is both on classical metrics such as response
time, throughput, resource utilization, and (energy) efficiency, as well as on
the relationship of such metrics to other system properties including but not
limited to scalability, elasticity, availability, reliability, and security.
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PROGRAM
ICPE'17 takes place from April 22 to 27, 2017.
The main conference runs from April 24 to 26, with a welcome reception on April
24 and a banquet on April 25.
Tutorials are held on April 22 and 23, while workshops take place on April 22,
23, and 27.
The preliminary program is available at
https://icpe2017.spec.org/conference-program.html
The following eight workshops will be held in conjunction with the main
conference:
- Saturday, April 22:
-- ACPROSS: Autonomous Control for Performance and Reliability Trade-offs in
Internet of Services
-- PABS: Third International Workshop on Performance Analysis of Big Data
Systems
-- WOSP-C: Workshop on Challenges in Performance Methods for Software
Development
- Sunday, April 23:
-- ENERGY-SIM: Third International Workshop on Energy-aware Simulation
-- LTB: Sixth International Workshop on Load Testing and Benchmarking of
Software Systems
-- MoLS: First International Workshop on Monitoring in Large-Scale Software
Systems
-- WEPPE: Workshop on Education and Practice of Performance Engineering
- Thursday, April 27:
-- QUDOS: Third International Workshop on Quality-aware DevOps
More information on the workshops can be found at
https://icpe2017.spec.org/conference-program/conference-workshops.html
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REGISTRATION
Registration is open! To register to ICPE'17 or to the co-located workshops and
tutorials, please follow the instruction at the following link:
https://icpe2017.spec.org/registration.html.
Early registration deadline: March 24, 2017
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KEYNOTE
We are proud to announce our keynote speakers for ICPE'17:
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Arif Merchant
(Google)
Title: Autonomic storage management at scale
Abstract:
Cloud data centers use enormous amounts of storage, and it is critical to
monitor, manage, and optimize the storage autonomically. Optimally configuring
storage is difficult because storage workloads are very diverse and change over
time. Data centers measure running workloads, but this measurement data stream
is itself quite large. We present some real world case studies in the use of
big data techniques, sampling, and optimization to manage storage in data
centers.
Short bio:
Arif Merchant is a Research Scientist at Google and leads the Storage Analytics
group, which studies interactions between components of the storage stack. His
interests include distributed storage systems, storage management, and
stochastic modeling. He holds the B.Tech. degree from IIT Bombay and the Ph.D.
in Computer Science from Stanford University. He is an ACM Distinguished
Scientist.
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Francesco Quaglia
(University of Rome "La Sapienza")
Title: Performance is Also a Matter of Where You Live
Abstract:
Nowadays, a plethora of techniques and methods are available to optimize the
runtime behavior of complex applications, ranging from modeling/prediction
tools to the employment of recognized patterns and/or knowledge-bases on the
expected performance under specific workloads. However, in common scenarios,
the ultimate applications' behavior may depend on features that are scarcely
predictable or difficult to be taken into account when designing the
applications and their own runtime optimizers. Among them, we mention the
actual structure of the underlying hardware and/or virtualized platforms, as
well as specific runtime dynamics such as thread correlation on data and
synchronization---not much the average behavior, rather punctual effects. We
believe that the environment where applications live, like operating systems
and user-space runtime libraries, play a central role in coping with these
features. We similarly believe that such environments must be re-staged so as
to be actually effective in pursuing the performance optimization goal. In this
talk, we discuss specific guidelines to re-stage the environments, based on a
real experience, and we point as well to challenges that are still untackled
and deserve attention by the research community.
Short bio:
Francesco Quaglia received the Laurea degree (MS level) in Electronic
Engineering in 1995 and the PhD degree in Computer Engineering in 1999 from the
University of Rome ``La Sapienza''. From summer 1999 to summer 2000 he held an
appointment as a Researcher at the Italian National Research Council (CNR).
Since January 2005 he works as an Associate Professor at the School of
Engineering of the University of Rome ``La Sapienza", where he has previously
worked as an Assistant Professor since September 2000 to December 2004. His
main research interests are in the areas of high performance computing,
dependable computing, transactional systems, operating systems, automatic code
parallelization, performance analysis and optimization. Currently, he is the
director of the HPDCS (High Performance and Dependable Computing Systems)
Research Lab at the University of Rome ``La Sapienza''.
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Thomas Wuerthinger
(Oracle Labs)
Title: Micro-Benchmarking Considered Harmful
Subtitle: When the Whole is Faster or Slower Than the Sum of its Parts
Abstract:
Measuring the time spent on small individual fractions of program code is a
common technique for analysing performance behavior and detecting performance
bottlenecks. The benefits of the approach include a detailed individual
attribution of performance and understandable feedback loops when experimenting
with different code versions. There are however severe pitfalls when following
this approach that can lead to vastly misleading results. Modern optimizing
compilers use complex optimization techniques that take a large part of the
program into account. There can be therefore unexpected side-effects when
combining different code snippets or even when running a presumably unrelated
part of the code. This talk will present performance paradoxes with examples
from the domain of dynamic compilation of Java programs. Furthermore, it will
discuss an alternative approach to modelling code performance characteristics
that takes the challenges of complex optimising compilers into account.
Short Bio:
Thomas Wuerthinger is a Senior Research Director at Oracle Labs leading
programming language implementation teams for languages including Java,
JavaScript, Ruby, and R. He is the architect of the Graal compiler and the
Truffle self-optimizing runtime system. Previously, he worked on the Crankshaft
optimizing compiler of V8 at Google, and the Maxine research virtual machine at
Sun Microsystems. He received a PhD degree from JKU Linz for his research about
dynamic code evolution.
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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
General Chairs
* Walter Binder, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Switzerland
* Vittorio Cortellessa, Università dell'Aquila, Italy
Research Program Chairs
* Anne Koziolek, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
* Evgenia Smirni, College of William and Mary, USA
Industry Program Chairs
* Meikel Poess, Oracle, USA
Tutorials Chair
* Valeria Cardellini, Università di Roma Torvergata, Italy
Workshops Chairs
* Hanspeter Mössenböck, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Austria
* Catia Trubiani, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy
Posters and Demos Chair
* Lubomir Bulej, Charles University, Czech Republic
Awards Chairs
* Petr Tuma, Charles University, Czech Republic
* Murray Woodside, Carleton University, Canada
Local Organization Chair
* Antinisca Di Marco, Università dell'Aquila, Italy
Publicity Chairs
* Andrea Rosà, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Switzerland
* Diego Perez, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Finance Chair
* André van Hoorn, University of Stuttgart
Publication and Registration Chair
* Davide Arcelli, Università dell'Aquila, Italy
Web Site Chair
* Daniele Di Pompeo, Università dell'Aquila, Italy
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CONTACTS
Do not hesitate to contact the general chairs at <walter.bin...@usi.ch> and
<vittorio.cortelle...@univaq.it> for more information about ICPE'17 and the
co-located venues.
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