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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">Fifth Workshop on Big Data Benchmarking (WBDB 2014)</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">August 5-6, 2014 - HPI, Potsdam, Germany</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">Sponsored by SAP, Intel, Mellanox, Pivotal, US National Science Foundation</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">**** Extended Submission Deadline - May 30, 2014 ****</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">The objective of the WBDB workshops is to make progress towards</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">development of industry standard application-level benchmarks for</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">evaluating hardware and software systems for big data applications.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">Discussions from previous WBDB workshops have resulted in the formation</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">of the TPC-BigData subcommittee, which is currently working on the</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">TPCx-HS benchmark, for Hadoop Systems. There have also been</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">presentations on a variety of proposed benchmarks including, BigBench,</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">HiBench, BigDataBenchmark, BigDecision, and the Deep Analytics Pipeline.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">Meeting Topics:</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">To continue making progress towards big data benchmarking standards, the</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">workshop will explore a range of issues including:</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">- Data features: New feature sets of data including, high-dimensional</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">data, sparse data, event-based data, and enormous data sizes.</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">- System characteristics: System-level issues including, large-scale and</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">evolving system configurations, shifting loads, and heterogeneous</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">technologies for big data and cloud platforms.</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">- Implementation options: Different implementation options such as SQL,</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">NoSQL, Hadoop software ecosystem, and different implementations of HDFS.</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">- Workloads: Representative big data business problems and corresponding</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">benchmark implementations. Specification of benchmark applications that</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">represent the different modalities of big data, including graphs,</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">streams, scientific data, and document collections.</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">- Hardware options: Evaluation of new options in hardware including</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">different types of HDD, SSD, and main memory, and large-memory systems,</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">and new platform options that include dedicated commodity clusters and</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">cloud platforms.</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">- Synthetic data generation: Models and procedures for generating</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">large-scale synthetic data with requisite properties.</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">- Benchmark execution rules: E.g. data scale factors, benchmark</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">versioning to account for rapidly evolving workloads and system</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">configurations, benchmark metrics.</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">- Metrics for efficiency: Measuring the efficiency of the solution, e.g.</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">based on costs of acquisition, ownership, energy and/or other factors,</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">while encouraging innovation and avoiding benchmark escalations that</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">favor large inefficient configuration over small efficient configurations.</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">- Evaluation frameworks: Tool chains, suites and frameworks for</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">evaluating big data systems.</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">- Early implementations: E.g. of, say, BigBench, HiBench,</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">BigDataBenchmark, BigDecision, and the Deep Analytics Pipeline, and</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">lessons learned in benchmarking big data applications.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">Important Dates:</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">- Submission Date: May 30</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">- Notification Date: June 20</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">- Camera-ready: August 30</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">General Chairs</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">Chaitan Baru, San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) UC San Diego</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">Tilmann Rabl, Middleware Services Research Group, University of Toronto</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">Kai Sachs, SAP AG</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">Matthias Uflacker, Hasso-Plattner-Institut</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">Publicity Chair</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">Henning Schmitz, SAP Innovation Center</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">Publication Chair</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">Meikel Poess, Oracle</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">Program Committee</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">Milind Bhandarkar, Pivotal</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">Anja Bog, SAP Labs</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">Dhruba Borthakur, Facebook</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">Joos-Hendrik Böse, Amazon</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">Tobias Bürger, Payback</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">Tyson Condie, UCLA</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">Kshitij Doshi, Intel</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">Pedro Furtado, University of Coimbra</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">Bhaskar Gowda, Intel</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">Goetz Graefe, HP</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">Martin Grund, Exascale</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">Alfons Kemper, TU München</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">Donald Kossmann, ETH Zürich</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">Tim Kraska, Brown University</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">Wolfgang Lehner, TU Dresden</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">Christof Leng, UC Berkeley</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">Raghu Nambiar, Cisco</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">Manoj Karunakaran Nambiar, Tata Consulting Services</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">Glenn Paulley, Conestoga College</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">Scott Pearson, CLDS Industry Fellow</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">Andreas Polze, Hasso-Plattner-Institut</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">Alexander Reinefeld, Zuse Institute Berlin / HU Berlin</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">Berni Schiefer, IBM Labs Toronto</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">Saptak Sen, Hortonworks</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">Florian Stegmaier, University of Passau</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">Till Westmann, Oracle Labs</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">Jianfeng Zhan, Chinese Academy of Science</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">Contact Info: For questions please contact Chaitan Baru, <a href="mailto:baru@sdsc.edu">baru@sdsc.edu</a></div>
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