Transaction Processing Performance Council Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking (TPC TC)

Collocated with VLDB 2009 and keynoted by Michael Stonebraker, the TPC has issued a call for papers.

Location: Lyon, France
Date: 8/24/2009 - 8/24/2009
Organizer: Transaction Processing Performance Council

Entitled the TPC Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking (TPC TC 2009), the conference will be collocated with the 35th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) on August 24, 2009 in Lyon, France. The TPC is a co-sponsor of VLDB 2009, and conference registration information is available at www.vldb2009.org.

The TPC has issued a call for papers for presentation at the conference, for publication in workshop materials and for consideration in future benchmark developments. Researchers, industry experts and analysts are encouraged to submit innovative ideas and methodologies in performance evaluation, measurement, and characterization within, but not limited to the following areas: appliance, business intelligence, cloud computing, complex event processing, database performance optimizations, green computing, data compression, disaster tolerance and recovery, energy and space efficiency, hardware innovations, high speed data generation, hybrid workloads or operational data warehousing, unstructured data management, software management and maintenance, virtualization and very large memory systems. The deadline for abstract submission is June 5, 2009 and additional information, including submission guidelines, is available at www.tpc.org/tpctc2009.

The TPC TC 2009 keynote speaker will be Michael Stonebraker, recognized as one of the top five software developers of the 20th century and an adjunct professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Organizations that are interested in influencing the TPC benchmarking development process, gaining timely access to ongoing proceedings and producing robust, higher performing products are encouraged to become members. Academic and government institutions are also encouraged to join the TPC. Additional information, including membership levels and pricing, is available at www.tpc.org/information/about/join.asp

Event Link:http://www.tpc.org/tpctc2009/