Message from the DCperf 2011 Workshop Organizers

Abstract

The first international workshop on Data Center Performance (DCperf 2011) addresses the backbone infrastructure for tomorrow's information technology. Their advantages are efficient resource provisioning and low operational costs for supporting a wide range of computing, be it in business, scientific or mobile/pervasive environments. Owing to the rapid growth in userdefined and user-generated programs, applications and files, the range of services provided at data centers will expand tremendously and unpredictably. The high volume of mixed workloads and the diversity of services offered render the performance optimization of data centers ever more challenging. Moreover, important optimization criteria, such as scalability, reliability, manageability, power efficiency, area density, operating costs and many more, are often mutually exclusive to some extent. This year’s focus is dedicated to enhancements on the data center's system-level aspects, communication, virtualization, and performance evaluation and optimization. The organizing committee wants to thank the Steering Committee members Jiannong Cao, Alok Choudhary, Martin Schmatz, Anand Sivasubramaniam, and Larry Xue. We also want to thank the organizers of ICDCS 2011 for their effort and continuous help with the organization of DCperf 2011.