Proceedings of the ACM/SPEC International Conference

Years of planning have gone into preparing for ICPE 2021 in Rennes. For the first time in France, the organization of ICPE has generated a great deal of excitement and expectation of productive interactions between the usual participants of ICPE conferences, the members of the various SPEC working groups, and a desire to increase the involvement of the local scientific community with ICPE.

For a long time, we hoped that the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic, which resulted in the cancellation of the 2020 edition of the face-to-face conference in Edmonton, would leave us with the opportunity to meet face-to-face this year. Alas, this is still not the case and the 2021 edition of ICPE is also held virtually from Rennes, France.

Despite the virtualization, the ICPE conference has proceeded with the publication of these proceedings and the provision of video presentations and slides related to the conference program on the website. The excellent ICPE 2021 conference program was made possible by the many authors who submitted contributions to the advancement of performance modeling and engineering and many other related topics.

We are glad to welcome the keynote speakers. Sven Apel, from Saarland University, who plans to share his experience in software performance modelling in spacetime and Shan Lu, from University of Chicago, who plans to share her experience on tackling performance bugs in web applications and cloud systems.

There is a lot of work involved in setting up a complex program like ICPE. In addition to the authors and presenters, many volunteer hours have been contributed by chairs, program committee members, local organizers, local volunteers, steering committee members, and many others. On behalf of the ICPE community, we thank you all for your efforts and dedication. We thank our sponsors for their sponsorship.

Although ICPE cannot proceed as planned due to the pandemic, we hope that the virtual conference will lead to productive online interactions among the members of the community, both from academia and industry.

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Session 1: Testing, Measurement and Profiling
Session 3: Modeling and Optimization
Session 4: Memory and Resource Management
Session 5: Service-based Systems
Session 6: Benchmarking
Session 7: IoT, Embedded Systems, Cloud
Workshop Summaries

Session 1: Testing, Measurement and Profiling

ConfProf: White-Box Performance Profiling of Configuration Options

Authors: Xue Han; Tingting Yu; Michael Pradel
DOI: 10.1145/3427921.3450255
Pages: 1 – 8

RENOIR: Accelerating Blockchain Validation using State Caching

Authors: Nitin Awathare; Sourav Das; Vinay J. Ribeiro; Umesh Bellur
DOI: 10.1145/3427921.3450247
Pages: 9 – 20

Context-tailored Workload Model Generation for Continuous Representative Load Testing

Authors: Henning Schulz; Dušan Okanović; André van Hoorn; Petr Tůma
DOI: 10.1145/3427921.3450240
Pages: 21 – 32

Creating a Virtuous Cycle in Performance Testing at MongoDB

Authors: David Daly
DOI: 10.1145/3427921.3450234
Pages: 33 – 41

Multivariate Time Series Synthesis Using Generative Adversarial Networks

Authors: Mark Leznik; Patrick Michalsky; Peter Willis; Benjamin Schanzel; Per-Olov Östberg; Jörg Domaschka
DOI: 10.1145/3427921.3450257
Pages: 43 – 50

Session 3: Modeling and Optimization

Learning Queuing Networks via Linear Optimization

Authors: Emilio Incerto; Annalisa Napolitano; Mirco Tribastone
DOI: 10.1145/3427921.3450245
Pages: 51 – 60

A Multivariate Characterization and Detection of Software Performance Antipatterns

Authors: Alberto Avritzer; Ricardo Britto; Catia Trubiani; Barbara Russo; Andrea Janes; Matteo Camilli; André van Hoorn; Robert Heinrich; Martina Rapp; Jörg Henß
DOI: 10.1145/3427921.3450246
Pages: 61 – 72

Simulation of In-Memory Database Workload: Markov Chains versus Relative Invocation Frequency and Equal Probability - A Trade-off between Accuracy and Time

Authors: Maximilian Barnert; Helmut Krcmar
DOI: 10.1145/3427921.3450237
Pages: 73 – 80

Prediction of the Consolidation Delay in Blockchain-based Applications

Authors: Simonetta Balsamo; Andrea Marin; Isi Mitrani; Nicola Rebagliati
DOI: 10.1145/3427921.3450249
Pages: 81 – 92

QN-based Modeling and Analysis of Software Performance Antipatterns for Cyber-Physical Systems

Authors: Riccardo Pinciroli; Connie U. Smith; Catia Trubiani
DOI: 10.1145/3427921.3450251
Pages: 93 – 104

Session 4: Memory and Resource Management

SymFlex: Elastic, Persistent and Symbiotic SSD Caching in Virtualization Environments

Authors: Muhammed Unais P; Purushottam Kulkarni
DOI: 10.1145/3427921.3450244
Pages: 105 – 115

LOOPS: A Holistic Control Approach for Resource Management in Cloud Computing

Authors: Auday Al-Dulaimy; Javid Taheri; Alessandro V. Papadopoulos; Thomas Nolte
DOI: 10.1145/3427921.3450254
Pages: 117 – 124

The Granularity Gap Problem: A Hurdle for Applying Approximate Memory to Complex Data Layout

Authors: Soramichi Akiyama; Ryota Shioya
DOI: 10.1145/3427921.3450259
Pages: 125 – 132

Courier: Real-Time Optimal Batch Size Prediction for Latency SLOs in BigDL

Authors: Diego Albo Martínez; Sharwin Bobde; Tomasz Motyka; Lydia Chen
DOI: 10.1145/3427921.3450233
Pages: 133 – 144

HLS_PRINT: High Performance Logging Framework on FPGA

Authors: Nupur Sumeet; Manoj Nambiar
DOI: 10.1145/3427921.3450238
Pages: 145 – 152

Session 5: Service-based Systems

Network Performance Influences of Software-defined Networks on Micro-service Architectures

Authors: Axel Busch; Martin Kammerer
DOI: 10.1145/3427921.3450236
Pages: 153 – 163

SuanMing: Explainable Prediction of Performance Degradations in Microservice Applications

Authors: Johannes Grohmann; Martin Straesser; Avi Chalbani; Simon Eismann; Yair Arian; Nikolas Herbst; Noam Peretz; Samuel Kounev
DOI: 10.1145/3427921.3450248
Pages: 165 – 176

Compositional Evaluation of Stochastic Workflows for Response Time Analysis of Composite Web Services

Authors: Laura Carnevali; Riccardo Reali; Enrico Vicario
DOI: 10.1145/3427921.3450250
Pages: 177 – 188

Session 6: Benchmarking

Libra: A Benchmark for Time Series Forecasting Methods

Authors: André Bauer; Marwin Züfle; Simon Eismann; Johannes Grohmann; Nikolas Herbst; Samuel Kounev
DOI: 10.1145/3427921.3450241
Pages: 189 – 200

ESPBench: The Enterprise Stream Processing Benchmark

Authors: Guenter Hesse; Christoph Matthies; Michael Perscheid; Matthias Uflacker; Hasso Plattner
DOI: 10.1145/3427921.3450242
Pages: 201 – 212

An Exploratory Study of the Impact of Parameterization on JMH Measurement Results in Open-Source Projects

Authors: Hazem Samoaa; Philipp Leitner
DOI: 10.1145/3427921.3450243
Pages: 213 – 224

The SPECpowerNext Benchmark Suite, its Implementation and New Workloads from a Developer’s Perspective

Authors: Norbert Schmitt; Klaus-Dieter Lange; Sanjay Sharma; Nishant Rawtani; Carl Ponder; Samuel Kounev
DOI: 10.1145/3427921.3450239
Pages: 225 – 232

Session 7: IoT, Embedded Systems, Cloud

Towards a Group Encryption Scheme Benchmark: A View on Centralized Schemes with Focus on IoT

Authors: Thomas Prantl; Peter Ten; Lukas Iffländer; Stefan Herrnleben; Alexandra Dmitrenko; Samuel Kounev; Christian Krupitzer
DOI: 10.1145/3427921.3450252
Pages: 233 – 240

Performance Impact Analysis of Securing MQTT Using TLS

Authors: Thomas Prantl; Lukas Iffländer; Stefan Herrnleben; Simon Engel; Samuel Kounev; Christian Krupitzer
DOI: 10.1145/3427921.3450253
Pages: 241 – 248