Exponential increase of online data and a corresponding growth of data-centric applications (Big Data analytics) forces system architects to revisit assumptions and requirements of the future system design. New non-volatile memory (NVM) technologies, ...

The end of Dennard scaling and the tyranny of Ahmdal's law have created significant barriers to system scaling, leading to a gap between today's system performance and where Moore's law predicted it should be.

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Performance models assist capacity management and planning for large-scale enterprise applications by predicting their performance for different workloads and hardware environments. Manually creating these models often outweighs their benefits. ...

A novel MapReduce constraint programming based matchmaking and scheduling algorithm (MRCP) that can handle MapReduce jobs with deadlines and achieve high system performance is devised. The MRCP algorithm is incorporated into Hadoop, which is a widely ...

Internet companies like LinkedIn handle a large amount of incoming web traffic. Events generated in response to user input or actions are stored in a source database. These database events feature the typical characteristics of Big Data: high volume, ...

Stacked DRAM promises to offer unprecedented capacity, and bandwidth to multi-core processors at moderately lower latency than off-chip DRAMs. A typical use of this abundant DRAM is as a large last level cache. Prior research works are divided on how to ...

Due to increasingly large datasets, graph analytics - traversals, all-pairs shortest path computations, centrality measures, etc. - are becoming the focus of high-performance computing (HPC). Because HPC is currently dominated by many-core architectures ...

Offloading is an advanced technique to improve the performance of mobile devices. In a mobile offloading system, heavy computations are migrated from resource constrained mobile devices to powerful cloud servers through a wireless network connection. ...

This paper conducts a systematic literature review of papers published in the proceedings of the International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) and its predecessors. It provides an overview of prevailing topics within the community over ...

RulE Management Platforms (REMPs) enable software engineers to represent programming logic as conditional sentences that relate statements of facts. A key benefit of REMPs is that they make software adaptable by burying the complexity of rule invocation ...

This year is the 6th International Conference on Performance Engineering - ICPE'15, which grew out of the ACM Workshop on Software Performance (WOSP since 1998) and the SPEC International Performance Engineering Workshop (SIPEW since 2008), taking place ...