Collocated with VLDB10, September 17, 2010 - Singapore

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First established in August 1988, the TPC has shaped the landscape of modern transaction processing and database benchmarks over two decades. Now, the world is in the midst of an extraordinary information explosion. Enterprise data and user generated data levels continue to grow exponentially. This has challenged researchers and industry experts to develop innovative techniques to evaluate and benchmark software and hardware technologies. As a result, the TPC is conducting its second Technology Conference (TPCTC 2010) in conjunction with the 36th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2010). With this conference, the TPC encourages researchers and industry experts to submit novel ideas and methodologies in performance evaluation, measurement, and characterization. Conference Programme September 17, 2010 Download the Programme 08:00 - 08:25 Opening Remarks and Welcome Raghunath Nambiar, General Chair (Cisco Systems, Inc., USA) 08:25 - 08:50 TPC Public Relations Presentation Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC): State of the Council 2010 Raghunath Nambiar (Cisco Systems, Inc., USA), Nicholas Wakou (Dell, USA), Forrest Carman (Owen Media, USA), Michael Majdalany (LoBue & Majdalany Mgt Group, USA) 08:50 - 10:30 Session 1 Liquid Benchmarks: Towards An Online Platform for Collaborative Assessment of Scientific Research Results Sherif Sakr (University of New South Wales, Australia), Fabio Casati (University of Trento, Italy) A Discussion on the Design of Graph Database Benchmarks D. Dominguez-Sal, N. Martinez-Bazan, V. Muntes-Mulero, Pere Baleta, J. L. Larriba-Pey (DAMA-UPC, Spain) A Data Generator for Cloud-Scale Benchmarking Tilmann Rabl, Michael Frank, Hatem Mousselly Sergieh, Harald Kosch (University of Passau, Germany) How to Advance TPC Benchmarks with Dependability Aspects Raquel Almeida (University of Coimbra, Portugal) , Meikel Poess (Oracle Corporation, USA), Raghunath Nambiar (Cisco Systems, Inc., USA), Indira Patil (Hewlett-Packard Company, USA), Marco Vieira (University of Coimbra, Portugal) 10:30 - 11:00 Tea Break 11:00 - 11:30 Invited Talk: Price and the TPC Karl Huppler (IBM, USA), Chairman TPC 11:30 - 12:30 Keynote: Implications of Storage Class Memories (SCMs) on Software Architectures C Mohan (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA) 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break 14:00 - 16:05 Session 2 EXRT: Towards a Simple Benchmark for XML Readiness Testing Michael J. Carey, Ling Ling (University of California-Irvine, USA) Matthias Nicola (IBM Silicon Valley Lab, USA), Lin Shao (University of California-Irvine, USA) Transaction Performance vs. Moore’s Law: A Trend Analysis Meikel Poess (Oracle Corporation, USA), Raghunath Nambiar (Cisco Systems, Inc., USA) TPC-V: Genesis of a New Benchmark for Evaluating the Performance of Database Applications in Virtual Environments Priya Sethuraman, H. Reza Taheri (VMware, Inc., USA) First TPC-Energy Benchmark: Lessons Learned in Practice Erik Young, Paul Cao, Mike Nikolaiev (Hewlett-Packard Company, USA) Using Solid State Drives As a Mid-Tier Cache In Enterprise OLTP Applications Badriddine M. Khessib, Kushagra Vaid, Sriram Sankar, Chengliang Zhang (Microsoft Corporation, USA) 16:05 - 16:30 Tea Break 16:30 - 18:10 Session 3 A Benchmark for Adaptive Indexing Goetz Graefe (Hewlett-Packard Labs, USA), Stratos Idreos (CWI Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Harumi Kuno (Hewlett-Packard Labs, USA), Stefan Manegold (CWI Amsterdam, The Netherlands) XWeB: the XML Warehouse Benchmark Hadj Mahboubi, Jerome Darmont (CEMAGREF Clermont-Ferrand, France) Benchmarking Using Basic DBMS Operations: Alain Crolotte, Ahmad Ghazal (Teradata Corporation, USA) Assessing and Optimizing Microarchitectural Performance of Event Processing Systems Marcelo R.N. Mendes, Pedro Bizarro, Paulo Marques (University of Coimbra, Portugal) 18:10 - 18:30 Closing Remarks Meikel Poess, Program Committee Chair (Oracle Corporation, USA)

Proceedings

Proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag as Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Selected papers may be considered for future TPC benchmark developments.

TPCTC 2010 Call for Papers

The TPC encourages researchers and industry experts to submit novel ideas and methodologies in performance evaluation, measurement, and characterization in the following areas: Appliance, Business Intelligence, Cloud computing, Complex event processing, Database optimizations, Data compression, Disaster tolerance and recovery, Energy and space efficiency, Green computing, Hardware innovations, High speed data generation, Hybrid workloads, Software management and maintenance, Unstructured data management, Very large memory systems, Virtualization, Lessons learned in using TPC workloads, Enhancements to TPC workloads. Selected papers may be considered for future TPC benchmark developments.

Submission Guidelines
Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished papers that are not currently under review for any other conference or journal. We also encourage the submission of extended abstracts, position statement papers and lessons learned in practice. The length of a paper should not exceed 16 pages. Papers should follow the LNBIP format, see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-487211-0 for details. The title page must contain a short abstract. A template in word can be downloaded from http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/word.zip?SGWID=0-0-45-72919-0. All papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format to the review web site at https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/tpctc2010/.

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General Chair
Raghunath Nambiar, Cisco, Inc., USA, rnambiar@cisco.com

Program Committee:
Meikel Poess, Oracle, USA, Chair, meikel.poess@oracle.com
Alain Crolotte, Teradata, USA
Badriddine Khessib, Microsoft, USA
Berni Schiefer, IBM, Canada
Guogen Zhang, IBM, USA
Harumi Kuno, HP Labs, USA
Kai Sachs, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Marco Vieira, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Masaru Kitsuregawa, University of Tokyo, Japan
Mike Molloy, Dell, USA
Paul Larson, Microsoft Research. USA
Peter Thawley, Sybase, USA
Yicheng Tu, University of South Florida, USA

Publicity Committee:
Nicholas Wakou, Dell, USA, Chair, nicholas_wakou@dell.com
Jerrold Buggert, Unisys, USA
Matthew Lanken, Oracle, USA
Michael Majdalany, L&M Management Group, USA
Forrest Carman, Owen Media, USA

Keynote: C. Mohan, IBM Research, USA