Over 160 attendees at ICPE 2013

Participants from 25 different countries attended ICPE 2013.

Over 160 participants from industry and academia attended the 4th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) 2013 in Prague, Czech Republic. The technical program included 20 full research papers, 2 short papers, 8 industrial/experience papers and 10 work-in-progress papers selected from over 80 submissions over all tracks. It also featured 3 keynote speakers of international repute, 6 poster/demo presentations, 4 tutorials and 1 invited talk on SPECjbb2013.

The winner of the best research paper award was "Towards Energy Proportional Computing for Enterprise-Class Server Workloads" by Balaji Subramaniam and Wu-Chun Feng. The winner of the best industry paper award was "Further Implementation Aspects of the Server Efficiency Rating Tool (SERT)" by Klaus-Dieter Lange, Jeremy A. Arnold, Hansfried. Block, Nathan Totura, John Beckett and Mike G. Tricker.

The conference co-located two workshops, HotTopiCS and MultiCloud. HotTopics attracted 54 participants with its focus on new and "hot" topics in the field of Cloud Services. MultiCloud had 47 participants and aimed to investigate concepts, models and tools for running applications on multiple and heterogeneous Cloud systems.

Photos of the conference are available at icpe2013.ipd.kit.edu/photos/.

The next ICPE conference will take place in April 2014 in Dublin, Ireland.

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