Proceedings of the ACM/SPEC International Conference

Years of planning went into the preparation of ICPE 2020 in Edmonton. There was great excitement in bringing ICPE back to North America after a while and great anticipation for productive interactions between the participants of ICPE and members of the various SPEC working groups. But, alas, the only certain thing about life is its uncertainty. The arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic led to the cancelation of the face-to-face conference in Edmonton. ICPE proceeded with the publication of these proceedings and with the availability of video presentations and slides linked to the conference program in the website. The great program for ICPE 2020 was made possible thanks to the many authors that submitted contributions to the advancement of performance modeling and engineering and many other related topics. We were anticipating great interest in the strong line of keynote speakers. The Canadian-based line up is a coincidence but it would have been a great way to celebrate the contributions from Canadian universities in this area. Gail Murphy from the University of British Columbia planned to share her experiences in increasing the productivity of software development. Sebastian Fishmeister from the University of Waterloo would talk about what they learned from mining traces from the design of embedded software systems. Ahmed Hassan from Queens University intended talk about assessing and testing large-scale software systems.

There is much work that goes into putting together a complex program such as ICPE. Besides the contributing authors and presenters, many volunteering hours were dedicated by chairs, programcommittee members, local organizers, local volunteers, steering-committee members and many others. On behalf of the ICPE community we thank you all for your effort and dedication. We thank for the generous sponsorship from the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC).

Even though ICPE could not go ahead as planned because of the 2020 pandemic, we hope that the availability of video presentations and the publication of these proceedings will lead to productive online interactions between researchers.

Keynote Talks
SESSION 1: Performance Portability
SESSION 2: Performance Learning
SESSION 3: Performance as Throughput and Concerns
SESSION 4: Serverless Apps
SESSION 5: Performance Issues
SESSION 6: Performance Costs and Emerging Problems
SESSION 7: Performance Techniques
Workshop Summaries

Keynote Talks

Developing Effective Software Productively

Authors: Gail C. Murphy
DOI: 10.1145/3358960.3383579
Pages: 1 – 1

Mining Traces of Embedded Software Systems for Insights

Authors: Sebastian Fischmeister
DOI: 10.1145/3358960.3383580
Pages: 3 – 3

SESSION 1: Performance Portability

Out of Band Performance Monitoring of Server Workloads: Leveraging RESTful API to monitor compute resource utilization and performance related metrics for server performance analysis.

Authors: Scott Faasse; James Bucek; David Schmidt
DOI: 10.1145/3358960.3375795
Pages: 4 – 11

Transferring Pareto Frontiers across Heterogeneous Hardware Environments

Authors: Pavel Valov; Jianmei Guo; Krzysztof Czarnecki
DOI: 10.1145/3358960.3379127
Pages: 12 – 23

Modeling of Request Cloning in Cloud Server Systems using Processor Sharing

Authors: Tommi Nylander; Johan Ruuskanen; Karl-Erik Årzén; Martina Maggio
DOI: 10.1145/3358960.3379128
Pages: 24 – 35

Taming Energy Consumption Variations In Systems Benchmarking

Authors: Zakaria Ournani; Mohammed Chakib Belgaid; Romain Rouvoy; Pierre Rust; Joel Penhoat; Lionel Seinturier
DOI: 10.1145/3358960.3379142
Pages: 36 – 47

SESSION 2: Performance Learning

An Automated Forecasting Framework based on Method Recommendation for Seasonal Time Series

Authors: André Bauer; Marwin Züfle; Johannes Grohmann; Norbert Schmitt; Nikolas Herbst; Samuel Kounev
DOI: 10.1145/3358960.3379123
Pages: 48 – 55

Learning Queuing Networks by Recurrent Neural Networks

Authors: Giulio Garbi; Emilio Incerto; Mirco Tribastone
DOI: 10.1145/3358960.3379134
Pages: 56 – 66

The Use of Change Point Detection to Identify Software Performance Regressions in a Continuous Integration System

Authors: David Daly; William Brown; Henrik Ingo; Jim O’Leary; David Bradford
DOI: 10.1145/3358960.3375791
Pages: 67 – 75

SESSION 3: Performance as Throughput and Concerns

Throughput Prediction of Asynchronous SGD in TensorFlow

Authors: Zhuojin Li; Wumo Yan; Marco Paolieri; Leana Golubchik
DOI: 10.1145/3358960.3379141
Pages: 76 – 87

Modeling Analytics for Computational Storage

Authors: Veronica Lagrange Moutinho dos Reis; Harry (Huan) Li; Anahita Shayesteh
DOI: 10.1145/3358960.3375794
Pages: 88 – 99

Duet Benchmarking: Improving Measurement Accuracy in the Cloud

Authors: Lubomír Bulej; Vojtěch Horký; Petr Tuma; François Farquet; Aleksandar Prokopec
DOI: 10.1145/3358960.3379132
Pages: 100 – 107

A Fully Structure-Driven Performance Analysis of Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication

Authors: Prabhjot Sandhu; Clark Verbrugge; Laurie Hendren
DOI: 10.1145/3358960.3379131
Pages: 108 – 119

Can a Chatbot Support Software Engineers with Load Testing? Approach and Experiences

Authors: Dušan Okanović; Samuel Beck; Lasse Merz; Christoph Zorn; Leonel Merino; André van Hoorn; Fabian Beck
DOI: 10.1145/3358960.3375792
Pages: 120 – 129

SESSION 4: Serverless Apps

Had You Looked Where I’m Looking? Cross-user Similarities in Viewing Behavior for 360-degree Video and Caching Implications

Authors: Niklas Carlsson; Derek Eager
DOI: 10.1145/3358960.3379129
Pages: 130 – 137

Microservices: A Performance Tester’s Dream or Nightmare?

Authors: Simon Eismann; Cor-Paul Bezemer; Weiyi Shang; Dušan Okanović; André van Hoorn
DOI: 10.1145/3358960.3379124
Pages: 138 – 149

A Framework for Satisfying the Performance Requirements of Containerized Software Systems Through Multi-Versioning

Authors: Sara Gholami; Alireza Goli; Cor-Paul Bezemer; Hamzeh Khazaei
DOI: 10.1145/3358960.3379125
Pages: 150 – 160

Detecting Latency Degradation Patterns in Service-based Systems

Authors: Vittorio Cortellessa; Luca Traini
DOI: 10.1145/3358960.3379126
Pages: 161 – 172

SESSION 5: Performance Issues

Software Performance Antipatterns in Cyber-Physical Systems

Authors: Connie U. Smith
DOI: 10.1145/3358960.3379138
Pages: 173 – 180

How Are Performance Issues Caused and Resolved?-An Empirical Study from a Design Perspective

Authors: Yutong Zhao; Lu Xiao; Xiao Wang; Lei Sun; Bihuan Chen; Yang Liu; Andre B. Bondi
DOI: 10.1145/3358960.3379130
Pages: 181 – 192

Optimizing Interrupt Handling Performance for Memory Failures in Large Scale Data Centers

Authors: Harish Dattatraya Dixit; Fan (Fred) Lin; Bill Holland; Matt Beadon; Zhengyu Yang; Sriram Sankar
DOI: 10.1145/3358960.3375793
Pages: 193 – 201