TPCTC 2012 - The Fourth TPC Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking 2012

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:
Big Data analytics and infrastructure
Database Appliances
Cloud Computing
In-memory databases
Social media infrastructure
Business intelligence
Complex event processing
Database optimizations
Green computing
Disaster tolerance and recovery
Energy and space efficiency
Hardware innovations
Data Integration
Hybrid workloads
Virtualization
Lessons learned in practice using TPC workloads
Enhancements to TPC workloads