Preliminary Program

Friday, June 27

9:00	Welcome
9:15	Session 1: System Profiling, Monitoring and Power Management
10:45	Coffee Break
11:15	Keynote: Mor Harchol-Balter - Scheduling for Server Farms: Approaches and Open Problems
12:15	Lunch
14:00	Invited Talk: Ulrich Marquard - SAP Standard Application Benchmarks
14:30	Session 2: Benchmarks and Workload Characterization
16:00	Coffee Break
16:30	Session 3: Benchmarks, Sizing and Optimization
19:00	Banquet

9:00	Session 4: Models for Software Performance Engineering
11:00	Coffee Break
11:15	Keynote: Murray Woodside - Performance Data and Performance Models
12:15	Lunch
14:00	Invited Paper: Workload Characterization of SPECpower_ssj2008 Benchmark
14:45	Coffee Break
15:00	Session 5: Web Services and Service-Oriented Architectures
16:30	Final Discussions and Concluding Remarks

Friday, 9:15 - 10:45

Session Chair: TBD

Trace-Context Sensitive Performance Profiling for Enterprise Software Applications
Matthias Rohr, André van Hoorn, Simon Giesecke, Jasminka Matevska, Wilhelm Hasselbring, and Sergej Alekseev.
University of Oldenburg (Germany), OFFIS Institute for Information Technology Oldenburg (Germany), and Nokia Siemens Networks GmbH & Co KG, Berlin (Germany)
Performance Monitoring and Analysis of Large Employee Appraisal System
Manoj Nambiar and Hemanta Kumar Kalita.
TATA Consultancy Services (India)
Dynamic Server Allocation for Power and Performance
Joris Slegers, Nigel Thomas, and Isi Mitrani.
Newcaste University (United Kingdom)

Friday, 14:30 - 16:00

Session Chair: Rema Hariharan (Advanced Micro Devices)

Scalasca parallel performance analyses of SPEC MPI2007 applications
Zoltán Szebenyi, Brian Wylie, and Felix Wolf.
RWTH Aachen University (Germany), and Juelich Supercomputing Centre (Germany)
Generating Probabilistic and Intensity-varying Workload for Web-based Software Systems
André van Hoorn, Matthias Rohr, and Wilhelm Hasselbring.
University of Oldenburg (Germany)
Tuning Topology Generators Using Spectral Distributions
Hamed Haddadi, Damien Fay, Steve Uhlig, Andrew Moore, Richard Mortier, Almerima Jamakovic, and Miguel Rio.
University College London (United Kingdom), University of Cambridge (United Kingdom), Delft University of Technology (Netherlands), and Vipadia Ltd (United Kingdom)

Friday, 16:30 - 17:45

Session Chair: Alan Adamson (IBM Toronto Lab)

A comparison of SPEC CPU2000 and SPEC CPU2006 with 499 other workloads using hardware counters
Lodewijk Bonebakker.
Sun Microsystems (United States)
Performance, Benchmarking and Sizing in Developing Highly Scalable Enterprise Software
Xiaoqing Cheng.
SAP AG (Germany)
Speeding up STL set/map usage in C++ applications
Dibyendu Das, Madhavi Valluri, Michael Wong and Chris Cambly.
IBM (India, United States, and Canada)

Saturday, 9:00 - 11:00

Session Chair: TBD

Extracting Response-times from Fluid analysis of Performance Models
Jeremy Bradley, Richard Hayden, William Knottenbelt, and Tamas Suto.
Imperial College London (United Kingdom)
Approximate solution of a PEPA model of a key distribution centre
Yishi Zhao, and Nigel Thomas.
Newcastle University (United Kingdom)
A Model Transformation from the Palladio Component Model to Layered Queueing Networks
Heiko Koziolek, and Ralf Reussner.
University of Oldenburg (Germany), and University of Karlsruhe (TU) (Germany)
Model-Driven Generation of Performance Prototypes
Steffen Becker, Tobias Dencker, and Jens Happe.
Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI) (Germany), University of Oldenburg (Germany), and University of Karlsruhe (TU) (Germany)

Saturday, 15:00 - 16:30

Session Chair: TBD

Phase-type Approximations for Message Transmission Times in Web Services Reliable Messaging
Philipp Reinecke and Katinka Wolter.
HU Berlin (Germany)
A Framework for Simulation Models of Service-Oriented Architectures
Falko Bause, Peter Buchholz, Jan Kriege and Sebastian Vastag.
TU Dortmund (Germany)
Model-driven Performability Analysis of Composite Web Services
Paolo Bocciarelli and Andrea D'Ambrogio.
University of Roma TorVergata (Italy)