The HotCloudPerf workshop proposes a meeting venue for academics and practitioners, from experts to trainees, in the field of cloud computing performance. The new understanding of cloud computing covers the full computational continuum from data centers to edge resources to IoT sensors and devices. The workshop aims to engage this community and to lead to the development of new methodological aspects for gaining a deeper understanding not only of cloud performance, but also of cloud operation and behavior, through diverse quantitative evaluation tools, including benchmarks, metrics, and workload generators. The workshop focuses on novel cloud properties such as elasticity, performance isolation, dependability, and other non-functional system properties, in addition to classical performance-related metrics such as response time, throughput, scalability, and efficiency.

The HotCloudPerf workshop is technically sponsored by the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC)’s Research Group (RG) and is organized annually by the RG Cloud Group. HotCloudPerf has emerged from the series of yearly meetings organized by the RG Cloud Group, since 2013. The RG Cloud Group group is taking a broad approach, relevant for both academia and industry, to cloud benchmarking, quantitative evaluation, and experimental analysis.

1. Methodological and practical aspects of software engineering, performance engineering, and computer systems related to hot topics in cloud performance.

2. Empirical performance studies in cloud computing environments and systems, including observation, measurement, and surveys.

3. Performance analysis using modeling, simulation, and queueing theory for cloud environments, applications, and systems.

4. Tuning and auto-tuning of systems operating in cloud environments, e.g., auto-tiering of data or optimized resource deployment.

5. Software patterns and architectures for engineering cloud performance, e.g., serverless.

6. End-to-end performance engineering for pipelines and workflows in cloud environments, or of applications with non-trivial SLAs.

7. Tools for monitoring and studying cloud computing performance.

8. General and specific methods and methodologies for understanding and engineering cloud performance.

9. Serverless computing platforms and microservices in cloud datacenters.

10. Case studies on cloud performance and its interaction with the computational continuum

1. Full-papers (8 pages including references)

2. Short-papers (4 pages including references)

3. Talk only (1-2 pages, not included in the proceedings).

The format of the submissions should follow the ACM format of the companion conference, ICPE.

All presented papers will have a good amount of time allocated for Q&A plus feedback. In addition, the presentation session will be wrapped up by a 10-15 min discussion.

Articles and talk-only contributions are required to be submitted via EasyChair.

You can find the full Call for Papers (CfP) here: CfP

Cristina L. Abad, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, Ecuador, (cabadr@espol.edu.ec)

Simon Eismann, University of Würzburg, Germany, (nikolas.herbst@uni-wuerzburg.de)

Alexandru Iosup, VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands (a.iosup@vu.nl)

To contact the chairs, you can email: hotcloudperf2022@easychair.org