Twelfth TPC Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation & Benchmarking
(TPCTC 2020)

in conjunction with VLDB 2020




Conference Program

August 31st, 2020




The TPCTC 2020 will be virtual. Please join us at Virtual Conference Room and Slack Channel




Start Time End Time Paper Information



07:50 PDT 08:05 PDT Opening Remarks
Raghunath Nambiar.
08:05 PDT 08:30 PDT Towards Testing ACID Compliance in the LDBC Social Network Benchmark (video) (code and slides)
Jack Waudby, Benjamin A. Steer, Karim Karimov, Jozsef Marton, Peter Boncz and Gábor Szárnyas.
08:30 PDT 08:55 PDT EXPOSE: Experimental Performance Evaluation of Stream Processing Engines Made Easy (video, code, slides)
Espen Volnes, Thomas Plagemann, Vera Goebel and Stein Kristiansen.
08:55 PDT 9:20 PDT Invited Talk: Revisiting Issues in Benchmarking Metric Selection
Chris Elford.



09:20 PDT 09:30 PDT Break



09:30 PDT 10:15 PDT Invited Talk: Performance Evaluation for Digital Transformation (video part 1) (video part2)
Suresh Gopalakrishnan.
10:15 PDT 10:40 PDT Experimental Comparison of Relational and NoSQL Document Systems: the Case of Decision Support (video)
Tomas Llano-Rios, Khalefa Mohamed and Antonio Badia.
10:40 PDT 11:05 PDT A Framework for Supporting Repetition and Evaluation in the Process of Cloud-based DBMS Performance Benchmarking
Patrick Erdelt.
11:05 PDT 11:30 PDT Benchmarking AI Inference: Where we are in 2020 (video)
Miro Hodak, David Ellison and Ajay Dholakia.
11:30 PDT 12:00 PDT TPC in the Cloud Era: Challenges and Opportunities
Feifei Li.
12:00 PDT 12:30 PDT Invited Talk: State of the Council in 2020
Meikel Poess.
12:30 PDT 12:35 PDT Closing Remarks
Meikel Poess.

Call For Papers

The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) is a non-profit organization established in August 1988. Over the past two decades, the TPC has had a significant impact on the computing industry’s use of industry-standard benchmarks. Vendors use TPC benchmarks to illustrate performance competitiveness for their existing products, and to improve and monitor the performance of their products under development. Many buyers use TPC benchmark results as points of comparison when purchasing new computing systems. The information technology landscape is evolving at a rapid pace, challenging industry experts and researchers to develop innovative techniques for evaluation, measurement and characterization of complex systems. The TPC remains committed to developing new benchmark standards to keep pace, and one vehicle for achieving this objective is the sponsorship of the Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking (TPCTC). Over the last nine years we have held TPCTC successfully in conjunction with VLDB.


With the twelfth TPC Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking (TPCTC 2020) proposal, we strive to excel the success of previous workshops by encouraging researchers and industry experts to present and debate novel ideas and methodologies in performance evaluation and benchmarking for emerging technology areas. 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 accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings, and selected papers will be considered for future TPC benchmark developments.
 

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Blockchain
  • Big Data and Analytics
  • Complex event processing
  • Database Optimizations
  • Data Integration
  • Disaster tolerance and recovery
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Emerging storage technologies (NVMe, 3D XPoint Memory etc)
  • Hybrid workloads
  • Energy and space efficiency
  • In-memory databases
  • Internet of Things
  • Virtualization
  • Enhancements to TPC workloads
  • Lessons learned in practice using TPC workloads
  • Collection and interpretation of performance data in public cloud environments

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 LNCS format. The title page must contain a short abstract. All papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format to the review web site at: Easychair

Important Dates

Abstract due: June 20th, 2020
Papers due: June 20th, 2020
Notification of acceptance: July 30th, 2020
Camera-ready copies: August 1st, 2020
Conference day: August 31st, 2020 (full day)


Conference Venue and Registration
Please visit the VLDB2020 conference web site at: http://vldb2020.org/

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.
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TPCTC 2020 Organization

General Chairs and Contacts
Raghunath Nambiar, AMD, USA, raghu.nambiar@amd.com
Meikel Poess, Oracle, USA, meikel.poess@oracle.com

Program Committee
Dippy Aggarwal, Intel, USA
Daniel Bowers, Gartner, USA
Michael Brey, Oracle, USA
Ajay Dholakia, Lenovo, USA
Dhabaleswar Panda, The Ohio State University, USA
Tilmann Rabl, TU Berlin, Germany
Reza Taheri, VMWare, USA

Publicity Committee
Meikel Poess, Oracle, USA
Andrew Bond, Red Hat, USA
Paul Cao, HPE, USA
Gary Little, Nutanix, USA
Raghunath Nambiar, AMD, USA
Reza Taheri, VMware, USA

Michael Majdalany, L&M Management Group, USA
Forrest Carman, Owen Media, USA
Andreas Hotea, Hotea Solutions, USA



About the TPC
The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) is a non-profit organization that defines transaction processing and database benchmarks and distributes vendor-neutral performance data to the industry. Additional information is available at http://www.tpc.org/.