Key information

Workshop

3–4 July 2008

Location

Huxley Building, level 3, room 344

Department of Computing, Imperial College London

Directions

Scope of the Workshop

Picture of Queen's Tower by Uli Harder, some rights reserved.

• Stochastic modelling of computer systems and networks
• Tools for all aspects of performance engineering from workload characterisation to operational analysis
• Modelling paradigms including, but not limited to: Stochastic Process Algebras, Stochastic Petri Nets and Queueing Theory
• Solution and simplification techniques for large Markov processes
• Formal notations for performance modelling
• Modelling and analysis of reliability and performance guarantees
• Performance-oriented design methods
• Novel techniques in computer system simulation
• Case studies and industrial reports
• Experience and evaluation of existing tools and techniques
• Grid markets and Grid economy

This workshop is the primary event at which the UK performance community can get together to present and discuss their work. Whilst primarily aimed at UK based performance engineers, we also welcome contributions from researchers working in other countries and those whose interest in performance is derived from experience in other fields. It provides an ideal opportunity for academics, industrialists and PhD students to relate experience and to present both finished work and work in progress. The event has been organised to sustain the atmosphere of informality that previous UKPEWs have fostered. As well as sessions for presenting the papers submitted, it will also be possible to organise a session of short presentations of work in progress. This year there will be a special track for papers related to present and future economic use of the Grid.

The Workshop Co-Chairs are pleased to announce that the keynote speakers for UKPEW2008 will be Professor Henri Bal from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Adam Grummitt from Metron Technology Ltd. Professor Bal's specialisation is parallel and distributed computing; he has, for example, published work (along with John Romein) on the use of a 144-processor parallel compute to solve the game of Awari, which required the exploration of 889,063,398,406 board positions. Metron produces performance management software packages which provide measurement, analysis, planning and reporting capabilities on a wide range of operating systems. Adam Grummitt is currently chair of the UK Computer Measurement Group and is also very active in the IT Infrastructure Library arena.

The proceedings will be published as part of the Department of Computing Technical Reports at Imperial College London. After the workshop, the authors of a selection of papers will be invited to submit extended versions to be considered for a special issue of IET Software.

Workshop Co-Chairs:

• Jeremy Bradley
• William Knottenbelt

Organising Committee & Programme Chairs:

• Ashok Argent-Katwala
• Nicholas Dingle
• Uli Harder

Steering Committee:

• Irfan Awan (Bradford)
• Jeremy Bradley (Imperial College London)
• Stephen Gilmore (Edinburgh)
• Stephen Jarvis (Warwick)
• Rob Pooley (Heriot-Watt)
• Nigel Thomas (Newcastle)

All enquiries should be directed to 2008@ukpew.org.