A Joint Meeting of WOSP/SIPEW Sponsored by ACM SIGMETRICS and ACM SIGSOFT in Cooperation with SPEC.

The goal of the International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) is to integrate theory and practice in the field of performance engineering by providing a forum for sharing ideas and experiences between industry and academia. ICPE is established as a joint meeting of the ACM Workshop on Software and Performance (WOSP) and the SPEC International Performance Evaluation Workshop (SIPEW). The conference brings together researchers and industry practitioners to share and present their experiences, discuss challenges, and report state-of-the-art and in-progress research on performance engineering of software and systems, including performance measurement, modeling, benchmark design, and run-time performance management.

Since its inception in 1998, WOSP has brought together software engineers, developers, performance analysts and software/performance modelers who are addressing the challenges of increasing system complexity, rapidly evolving software technologies, short time to market, incomplete documentation, and less-than-adequate methods, models and tools for developing, modeling, and measuring scalable, high-performance software. The focus of WOSP is therefore in the intersection of software and performance, rather than one discipline in isolation.

SIPEW was established by the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) with the goal to provide a forum for sharing ideas and experiences between industry and academia in the areas of computer benchmarking, performance evaluation, and experimental system analysis. The scope of the workshop includes methodologies, techniques and tools for measurement, load testing, profiling, workload characterization, dependability and efficiency evaluation of computing systems. While the focus is on performance and scalability, other extra-functional system properties such as availability, reliability, cost and energy efficiency are considered as well.