TPCTC 2011 - 3rd TPC Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking (TPCTC 2011)

Over the past two decades, the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) has had a significant impact on the computing industry’s use of industry-standard benchmarks. For example, vendors and endusers rely on TPC benchmarks to provide real-world data that is backed by a stringent and independent review process. Vendors also use TPC benchmarks to demonstrate performance competitiveness for their existing products, and to improve/monitor the performance of products-under-development. Many buyers often use TPC benchmark results as points of comparison when purchasing new computing systems.

The technology landscape is continually evolving and challenging industry experts and researchers to develop innovative techniques to evaluate and benchmark computing systems. The TPC remains committed to developing highly relevant benchmark standards and will continue to develop new benchmarks to keep pace. With this conference, the TPC encourages researchers and industry experts to submit novel ideas and methodologies in performance evaluation, measurement, and characterization.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Business intelligence
Social media infrastructure
Cloud computing
Complex event processing
Database optimizations
Green computing
Disaster tolerance and recovery
Energy and space efficiency
Hardware innovations
Hybrid workloads
Virtualization
Lessons learned in practice using TPC workloads
Enhancements to TPC workloads
Selected papers may be considered for future TPC benchmark developments.

Submission Guidelines
Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished papers that are not currently under review for any other conference or journal. We also encourage the submission of extended abstracts, position statement papers and lessons learned in practice. The length of a paper should not exceed 16 pages. Papers should follow the LNCS format. The title page must contain a short abstract.t. All papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format to the review web site at https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/tpctc2011/.

Important Dates

Abstracts due May 23, 2011
Papers due May 30, 2011
Notification of acceptance June 30, 2011
Camera-ready copies July 15, 2011
Workshop session August 29, 2011