Benchmarking in the Data Center

workshop held in conjunction with HPC Asia 2019: The International Conference on High Performance Computing in Asia-Pacific Region (HPC Asia) 2019

Workshop Scope and Topics

While traditional cloud and high performance computing workloads are quite different, many of the components used in high performance computers are also used in traditional data centers. Furthermore, big data and high performance computing are converging, both in terms of hardware and software used. It is therefore helpful to have a common subset of performance metrics that are useful in assessing data center efficiency. Of particular interest, is that more than half of the computers on the Top500 list are in Asia.

Survey

Please fill in the survey here Randomly selected participants will receive:

An amazon.cn voucher worth 400¥ (CNY) or equivalent
An international assortment of sweet delicacies (workshop attendees only)

The survey winner was Xiaohu Guo. Congratulations!

Date and Location

Wednesday 16 January

Vanburgh Hotel, Guangzhou, China

Workshop Program

Time	Name	Affilation	Title	Slides
13:00-13:30	Guo Liang	Open Data Center Committee & China Academy of Information and Communications Technology	An overview of data centers in China
13:30-14:00	Robert Henschel	Indiana University & SPEC	Using the SPEC HPG Benchmarks for Better Analysis and Evaluation of Current and Future HPC Systems	slides
14:00-14:10	Vikcy Xie	Open Data Center Committee & China Academy of Information and Communications Technology	Liquid cooling technology and performance efficiency in data center
14:10-14:30	Yao Xiao	Shenzhen University	The Role of Privacy in Benchmarking Geo-Distributed Data Centers
14:30-15:00	Wu-chun Feng	Virginia Tech	The Green500: Metrics, Methodologies, and Workloads
15:00-15:30			Break
15:30-16:00	Piotr Bala	University of Warsaw	Benchmarking Java as a possibility to merge HPC and Big Data processing	slides
16:00-16:30	Xiaoyi Lu	Ohio State University	Benchmarking and Accelerating Big Data and Deep Learning Systems on Modern HPC Architecture	slides
16:30-17:00	Zhuowei Si	Intel	Intel MPI benchmarks	slides
17:00-17:25	Juan Chen	National University of Defense Technology	Moderated Discussion
17:25-17:30			Closing

Submissions

The workshop solicits:

Short papers of upto 6 pages in ACM sigconf format.
Abstracts based on available work related to benchmarks that would be suitable and useful for workshop discussion.

Papers will be published and presented. Previous work will be briefly introduced. Both will form the basis of discussion groups during the conference workshop.

The first portion of the workshop will then be devoted to the selected position papers, introduction of key points from abstracts submitted for discussion and a brief survey overview. There will then be breakout discussions, followed by a wrap-up discussion. A post workshop edited collection of papers on sustainable and effective benchmarking of converged high performance and big data computing infrastructures is also planned. This will be comprised of extended workshop papers, invited papers and summary papers with new viewpoints resulting from the workshop.

Both the conference proceedings and the post workshop volume will have open access options. For information about ACM open access options, please see here.

ACM templates can be found here

Please make submissions here.