BPOE 2014 - The Fourth workshop on Big Data Benchmarks, Performance Optimization, and Emerging Hardware

Big data has emerged as a strategic property of nations and organizations. There are driving needs to generate values from big data. However, the sheer volume of big data requires significant storage capacity, transmission bandwidth, computations, and power consumption. It is expected that systems with unprecedented scales can resolve the problems caused by varieties of big data with daunting volumes. Nevertheless, it is very difficult for big data owners to make choice on which system is most suited for their specific requirements. They also face challenges on how to optimize the systems and their solutions. Meanwhile, system researchers are working on new hardware architecture, operating systems, programming systems, and data management systems to improve performance in dealing with big data.
This workshop, the fourth in its series, aims at bringing researchers and practitioners in related areas together to discuss the research issues at the intersection of these areas, and also to draw much attention from architecture, systems, programming, and data management research communities to this new and highly promising field.
Topics
The workshop seeks papers that address hot topic issues in benchmarking, designing and optimizing big data systems. Early stage work, new ideas, unconventional approaches are encouraged. Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to:
Big data workload characterization and benchmarking
Innovative computer and memory architecture for big data
Emerging hardware technologies in big data systems
Innovative operating systems and programming systems for big data
Interactions among architecture, systems and data management
Performance analysis and optimization of big data systems
Innovative prototypes of big data infrastructures
Practice report of evaluating and optimizing large-scale big data systems
Papers should present original research. As big data spans many disciplines, papers should provide sufficient background material to make them accessible to the broader community.
Venue Information
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Important dates
Abstract submission deadline, December 31, 2013
Submission Deadline: January 7, 2014 (11:59pm PST)
Author Notification: January 25, 2014
Final Copy Due: February 17, 2014
Workshop: Saturday, March 1, 2014
Workshop home page: http://prof.ict.ac.cn/bpoe_4_asplos
Submission Web page: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bpoe4
Organization
Steering committee:
Christos Kozyrakis, Stanford
Xiaofang Zhou, University of Queensland
Dhabaleswar K Panda, Ohio State University
Raghunath Nambiar, Cisco
Xiaoyong Du, Renmin University of China
Jianfeng Zhan, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Program Chair:
Jianfeng Zhan, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Chuliang Weng, Huawei
Web Chair:
Lei Wang, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Publicity Chairs:
Yuqing Zhu (Data management), ICT, CAS
Gang Lu (Operating systems), ICT, CAS
Zhen Jia (Architecture), ICT, CAS