Program

At a Glance

Time	Mon (May 5)	Tue (May 6)	Wed (May 7)	Thu (May 8)	Fri (May 9)
08:30-09:00	Registration / Coffee	Registration / Coffee	Registration / Conference Opening	Registration / Coffee	Registration / Coffee
09:00-09:30	Workshops and Tutorials	Workshops and Tutorials	Keynote: Lizy John, University of Texas at Austin, USA	Keynote: Ahmed Hassan, Queen's University, Canada	Keynote: Mark Brooker, AWS, USA
09:30-10:00			Keynote: Lizy John, University of Texas at Austin, USA	Keynote: Ahmed Hassan, Queen's University, Canada	Keynote: Mark Brooker, AWS, USA
10:00-10:30			Main Conference - Session 1 - Profiling, Bottleneck Analysis, and Software Development	Main Conference - Session 5 - Benchmarking in Industry	Main Conference - Session 8 - Deployment and Capacity Planning
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break
11:00-11:30	Workshops and Tutorials	Workshops and Tutorials	Main Conference - Session 2 - Cloud Architectures	Main Conference - Session 6 - Architectures	Main Conference - Session 9 - Energy and Modeling
11:30-12:00
12:00-12:30
12:30-2:00	Lunch	Lunch / Posters	Lunch / Posters	Lunch / Posters	Lunch / Posters
02:00-02:30	Workshops and Tutorials	Workshops and Tutorials	Main Conference - Session 3 - LLM Performance	Main Conference - Session 7 - Memory and Network	Main Conference - Session 10 - Artifacts, Data Challenge and Emerging Research
02:30-03:00
03:00-03:20
03:20-03:30				Coffee Break
03:30-03:40	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Conference Closing
03:40-04:00	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	SPEC/ICPE Awards	Conference Closing
04:00-04:30	Workshops and Tutorials	Workshops and Tutorials	Main Conference - Session 4 - Cloud in Industry
04:30-05:00			Main Conference - Session 4 - Cloud in Industry
05:00-05:30			Panel	Break/Travel to Cruise Site
05:30-06:00			Panel	Break/Travel to Cruise Site
Evening			Welcome Reception (6:15-9:00 PM)	Conference Dinner / Cruise (6:00-9:30 PM)

Detailed Program

Monday, May 5

Time	Room A	Room B
08:30-09:00	Registration
09:00-09:30	The 5th Workshop on Education and Practice of Performance Engineering (WEPPE 2025)	Serverless Orchestration on the Edge-Cloud Continuum: Challenges and Solutions
09:30-10:00
10:00-10:30
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break
11:00-11:30	The 5th Workshop on Education and Practice of Performance Engineering (WEPPE 2025)	Serverless Orchestration on the Edge-Cloud Continuum: Challenges and Solutions
11:30-12:00
12:00-12:30
12:30-2:00	Lunch
02:00-02:30	The 6th Workshop on Benchmarking in the Data Center: Expanding to the Cloud (BID 2025)	Hands-On Tutorial for Mastering Linux Performance Analysis Tools
02:30-03:00
03:00-03:30
03:30-04:00	Coffee Break
04:00-04:30	The 6th Workshop on Benchmarking in the Data Center: Expanding to the Cloud (BID 2025)	Hands-On Tutorial for Mastering Linux Performance Analysis Tools
04:30-05:00
05:00-05:30

Tuesday, May 6

Time	Room A	Room B	Room C
08:30-09:00	Registration
09:00-09:30	The 8th Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing Performance (HotCloudPerf-2025)	The 3rd International Workshop on AI Performance and Optimization in the LLM World (AIPerf 2025) / The 10th Workshop on Challenges in Performance Methods for Software Development (WOSP-C'25)	Next Generation Energy-Efficiency Benchmarking - Reliable and Reproducible Efficiency Testing in a Diverse IT-Landscape
09:30-10:00
10:00-10:30
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break
11:00-11:30	The 8th Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing Performance (HotCloudPerf-2025)	The 3rd International Workshop on AI Performance and Optimization in the LLM World (AIPerf 2025) / The 10th Workshop on Challenges in Performance Methods for Software Development (WOSP-C'25)	Next Generation Energy-Efficiency Benchmarking - Reliable and Reproducible Efficiency Testing in a Diverse IT-Landscape
11:30-12:00
12:00-12:30
12:30-2:00	Lunch
02:00-02:30	The 8th Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing Performance (HotCloudPerf-2025)	The 13th International Workshop on Load Testing and Benchmarking of Software Systems (LTB 2025)
02:30-03:00
03:00-03:30
03:30-04:00	Coffee Break
04:00-04:30	The 8th Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing Performance (HotCloudPerf-2025)	The 13th International Workshop on Load Testing and Benchmarking of Software Systems (LTB 2025)
04:30-05:00
05:00-05:30

Wednesday, May 7

Time	Slot	Program
08:30-10:00	08:30-08:45	Registration/Coffee
	08:45-09:00	Conference Opening
	09:00-09:30	Keynote: AI for Performance Engineering and Performance Engineering for AI Speaker: Lizy John, University of Texas at Austin, USA
	09:30-10:00
Session 1 - Profiling, Bottleneck Analysis, and Software Development
10:00-11:00	10:00-10:10	PARAGRAPH: Phase-Aware Resource Demand Profiling for HPDA/HPC Jobs. Ivo Rohwer, Nikolas Herbst, Maximilian Schwinger, Peter Friedl, Michael Stephan, Samuel Kounev (Short Paper - Research Track)
	10:10-10:20	BottleMod: Modeling Data Flows and Tasks for Fast Bottleneck Analysis. Ansgar Lajayer, Joel Witzke, Florian Schintke, Bjajrn Scheuermann (Short Paper - Research Track)
	10:20-10:30	Developing Software with Performance in Mind. Josef Mayrhofer (Research Track)
	10:30-11:00	Coffee Break
Session 2 - Cloud Architectures
11:00-02:00	11:00-11:20	Utilizing Graph Neural Networks for Effective Link Prediction in Microservice Architectures Ghazal Khodabandeh, Alireza Ezaz, Majid Babaei, Naser Ezzati-Jivan (Research Track)
	11:20-11:40	Generating Executable Microservice Applications for Performance Benchmarking Yannik Lubas, Martin Straesser, Andrao Bauer, Samuel Kounev (Research Track)
	11:40-12:00	Columbo: A Reasoning Framework for Kubernetes Configuration Space. Matthijs Jansen, Sacheendra Talluri, Krijn Doekemeijer, Nick Tehran, Alexandru Iosup, Animesh Trivedi (Research Track)
	12:00-12:20	Proportional Fairness and Isolation for Serverless Applications over FaaS Platforms. George Kelantonakis, Fallia Kourou, Kostas Magoutis Research Track
	12:20-12:30	Will Performance Engineers Be the Cloud Cost Saving Rock Stars? Andrew Lee (Industry Presentation Track)
	12:30-02:00	Lunch/Posters
Session 3 - LLM performance
02:00-04:00	02:00-02:20	An Empirical Characterization of Outages and Incidents in Public Services for Large Language Models. Xiaoyu Chu, Sacheendra Talluri, Qingxian Lu, Alexandru Iosup Research Track
	02:20-02:40	PreNeT: Leveraging Computational Features to Predict Deep Neural Network Training Time Alireza Pourali, Arian Boukani, Hamzeh Khazaei (Research Track)
	02:40-03:00	Large Language Model Fine-tuning with Low-Rank Adaptation: A Performance Exploration Bagus Hanindhito, Bhavesh Patel, Lizy K. John (Research Track)
	03:00-03:10	Performance Optimizations for Scaling LLM based Log Analytics Tool. Harshit Kumar, Pranjal Gupta, Karan Bukar, Seema Nagar, Prateeti Mohapatra, Debanjana Kar (Industry Presentation Track)
	03:10-03:20	Optimization Strategies for Enhancing Resource Efficiency in Transformers & Large Language Models. Tom Wallace, Beatrice Ombuki-Berman, Naser Ezzati-Jivan (Short Paper - Research Track)
	03:20-03:28	RPerf: Mining User Reviews Using Topic Modeling to Assist Performance Testing: An Industrial Experience Report. Zehao Wang, Wei Liu, Jinfu Chen, Tse-Hsun (Peter) Chen (Journal First)
	03:30-04:00	Coffee Break
Session 4 - Cloud in Industry
04:00-05:00	04:00-04:15	Bridging Clusters: A Comparative Look at Multicluster Networking Performance in Kubernetes. Sai Sindhur Malleni, Raúl Sevilla, José Castillo Lema, André Bauer (Industry Track)
	04:15-04:30	Shaved Ice: Optimal Compute Resource Commitments for Dynamic Multi-Cloud Workloads. Murray Stokely, Orestis Kostakis, Neel Nadgir, Jack Peele Industry Track
	04:30-04:45	Towards Workload-aware Cloud Efficiency: A Large-scale Empirical Study of Cloud Workload Characteristics. Anjaly Parayil, Jue Zhang, Xiaoting Qin, Inigo Goiri, Lexiang Huang, Timothy Zhu, Chetan Bansal, Lexiang Huang (Industry Track)
	04:45-05:00	Cost optimization and performance control in the hybrid multi-cloud environment. Boris Zibitsker, Alex Lupersolsky (Industry Track)
Panel & Social Events
05:00-09:00	05:00-06:00	Panel: "Software Performance Engineering: Past, Present, and Future – A Word from the Pioneers." Chair: Antinisca Di Marco. Panelists: Connie Smith, Dorina Petriu, Murray Woodside.
05:00-09:00	Evening	Welcome Reception (06:15-09:00)

Thursday, May 8

Time	Slot	Program
08:30-10:00	08:30-09:00	Registration/Coffee
	09:00-09:30	Keynote: Software Performance Engineering for Foundation Model-Powered Software (FMware) Speaker: Ahmed Hassan, Queen's University, Canada
	09:30-10:00
Session 5 - Benchmarking in Industry
10:00-11:00	10:00-10:15	Accelerating Model Optimization on the Edge Through Automated Performance Benchmarking and End-to-End Profiling. Nayara Aguiar, Helen Chigirinskaya, Jie Chen, Anoush Najarian (Industry Track)
	10:15-10:30	Platform Performance Suite (PPS): A Framework for Performance Analysis & Diagnosis of Complex Cyber-Physical Systems. Konstantinos Triantafyllidis, Jos Hegge, Yuri Blankenstein, Sobhan Niknam (Industry Track)
	10:30-11:00	Coffee Break
Session 6 - Architectures
11:00-02:00	11:00-11:20	Introducing GPU persistent graphs for time-sensitive workflows. Cyril Cetre, Florian Ferreira, Raomi Barrere, Damien Gratadour (Research Track)
	11:20-11:40	Component-Based Analytical Modeling of GPU Runtime Performance: a Case-Study in Scientific Computing. Jolly Chen, Ana Lucia Varbanescu, Monica Dessole (Research Track)
	11:40-12:00	Multi-Strided Access Patterns to Boost Hardware Prefetching. Miguel Blom, Kristian Rietveld, Rob van Nieuwpoort (Research Track)
	12:00-12:10	Parallel GPU-Enabled Algorithms for SpGEMM on Arbitrary Semirings with Hybrid Communication. Thomas McFarland, Julian Bellavita, Giulia Guidi (Short Paper - Research Track)
	12:10-12:20	A Novel Approach for Detecting Noisy Neighbors in CPU-Isolated Cgroups Environments. Simon Volpert, Sascha Winkelhofer, Jajrg Domaschka, Stefan Wesner (Short Paper - Research Track)
	12:20-12:30	An Analysis of User-space Idle State Instructions on x86 Processors. Malte-Christian Kuns, Hannes Tröpgen, Robert Schöne (Short Paper - Research Track)
	12:30-02:00	Lunch/Posters
Session 7 - Memory and Network
02:00-03:40	02:00-02:20	On-demand Memory Compression of Stream Aggregates through Reinforcement Learning. Jingyu Liu, Vincenzo Gulisano (Research Track)
	02:20-02:40	Better memory tiering, right from the first placement. Joao Barreto, Bartosz Chominski, Andrao Gonasalves, Fedar Karabeinikau, Maciej Maciejewski, Joao Pavoas, Jakub Schmiegel, Kostiantyn Storozhuk (Research Track)
	02:40-03:00	Non-linear Programming for the Network Calculus Analysis of FIFO Feedforward Networks Lukas Herll, Steffen Bondorf (Research Track)
	03:00-03:20	Uplink End-to-End Latency Characterization of a 5G NSA Access Network. Orangel Azuaje Contreras, Ana Aguiar, Peter Steenkiste (Research Track)
	03:20-03:40	Coffee Break
Awards Ceremony & Social Events
03:40-09:30	03:40-05:00	SPEC/ICPE Awards
	05:00-06:00	Travel to Cruise Site
	Evening	Conference Dinner / Cruise (6:00-9:30 PM)

Friday, May 9

Time	Slot	Program
08:30-10:00	08:30-09:00	Registration/Coffee
	09:00-09:30	Keynote: Great Performance for Bad Days Speaker: Mark Brooker, AWS, USA
	09:30-10:00
Session 8 - Deployments and Capacity Planning
10:00-11:00	10:00-10:15	Beyond Maximum Throughput: Explore Full Operational Envelope for Capacity Planning. Xiaosong Lou (Industry Track)
	10:15-10:30	CADAEC: Content-Aware Deployment of AI Workloads in Edge-Cloud Ecosystem Ratul Kishore Saha, Sparsh Mittal, Rekha Singhal, Manoj Nambiar (Industry Track)
	10:30-11:00	Coffee Break
Session 9- Energy and Modeling
11:00-02:00	11:00-11:20	Understanding the Energy Consumption of Cloud-native Software. Lars Andringa, Brian Setz, Vasilios Andrikopoulos (Research Track)
	11:20-11:40	HeteroBench: Multi-kernel Benchmarks for Heterogeneous Systems. Hongzheng Tian, Alok Mishra, Zhiheng Chen, Rolando Pablo Hong Enriquez, Dejan Milojicic, Eitan Frachtenberg, Sitao Huang (Research Track)
	11:40-12:00	Quantifying Data Leakage in Failure Prediction Tasks. Daniel Grillmeyer, Marius Hadry, Veronika Lesch, Vanessa Borst, Robert Leppich, Andrao Bauer, Samuel Kounev (Research Track)
	12:00-12:10	Energy Metrics for Edge Microservice Request Placement Strategies Klervie Toczao, Simin Nadjm-Tehrani (Short Paper - Research Track)
	12:10-12:20	Capacity Planning and Performance Modelling for Cloud Services: A Case Study on Messaging Service Workloads. Rupinder Virk, Syed Uzzaman, Subramanian Rangaswamy, Pradeep Sonawane (Industry Presentation Track)
	12:20-12:30	Optimizing Hunter to Compute Change Points in Constant Time and What that Means for UX Henrik Ingo (Industry Presentation Track)
	12:30-02:00	Lunch/Posters
Session 10 - Artifacts, Data Challenge and Emerging Research
02:00-04:00	02:00-02:08	SplitTracr: A Flexible Performance Evaluation Tool for Cooperative Inference and Split Computing. Nicholas Bovee, Izhar Ali, Gopi Patapanchala, Suraj Bitla, Shen Shyang Ho (Artifact Evaluation Track)
	02:08-02:16	The Kieker Observability Framework Version 2. Shinhyung Yang, David Georg Reichelt, Reiner Jung, Marcel Hansson, Wilhelm Hasselbring (Artifact Evaluation Track)
	02:16-02:24	A Dataset of Performance Measurements and Alerts from Mozilla. Mohamed Bilel Besbes, Diego Elias Costa, Suhaib Mujahid, Gregory Mierzwinski, Marco Castelluccio (Artifact Evaluation Track)
	02:24-02:32	TraceLens: Early Detection of Software Anomalies Using Critical Path Analysis M. Nourollahi, A. Haghshena, M. Dagenais (Data Challenge)
	02:32-02:40	Kernel-Level Event-Based Performance Anomaly Detection in Software Systems under Varying Load Conditions. A. Njoku, H. Li (Data Challenge)
	02:40-02:48	Improving Runtime Performance in Java: A Systematic Detection and Refactoring Approach for Lock Contention Code Smells. Ankita Mukherjee, Ashadullah Shawon, Ramiro Liscano, Akramul Azim, Md Asif Khan, Joseph Robertson, Vijay Sundaresan, Yee-Kang Chang (Work In progress paper - Emerging Research Track)
	02:48-02:56	Optimizing Memory Access Patterns through Automatic Data Layout Transformation Jolly Chen, Ana Lucia Varbanescu, Axel Naumann (Work in Progress Paper - Emerging Research Track)
	02:56-03:04	Modeling and Optimizing Runtime Adaptation Strategies at Design-Time using Evolutionary Algorithms. Martina Rapp, Max Scheerer, Ralf Sieger, Ralf Reussner, Raffaela Mirandola (Vision Paper - Emerging Research Track)
	03:04-03:12	Multi-Criteria Optimization of Real-Time DAGs on Heterogeneous Platforms under P-EDF. Tommaso Cucinotta, Alexandre Amory, Gabriele Ara, Francesco Paladino, Marco Di Natale (Journal First)
	03:12-03:20	Performance Modeling of Distributed Data Processing in Microservice Applications. Yicheng Gao, Giuliano Casale, Rekha Singhal (Journal First)
	03:20-03:28	IPA: Inference Pipeline Adaptation to Achieve High Accuracy and Cost-Efficiency. Saeid Ghafouri, Kamran Razavi, Mehran Salmani, Alireza Sanaee, Tania Lorido Botran, Lin Wang, Joseph Doyle, Pooyan Jamshidi (Journal First)
	03:30-04:00	Conference Closing