14th ACM/SPEC ICPE 2023 back from virtual to real world in Coimbra, Portugal

Monday, May 29, 2023 00:00

With a crowd of 150+ participants, the 14th edition of the ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE 2023) took place in the city of Coimbra, Portugal on April 15-19

With a crowd of 150+ participants, the 14th edition of the ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE 2023) took place in the city of Coimbra, Portugal on April 15-19.

The first in-person edition of the conference after the COVID-enforced travel restrictions sported a packed five-days program, opened with a weekend of 3 performance engineering tutorials and 8 colocated workshops. Following the opening weekend, the main conference schedule included keynote presentations by Mathieu Nayrolles of Ubisoft, Federica Sarro of University College London, and Georg Hager of Erlangen National High Performance Computing Center, and presentations of 19 full papers, 9 emerging research papers, and dedicated Data Challenge and Poster and Demo tracks.

The conference has welcomed the presentation of Lishan Yang, the winner of the SPEC Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation Award, and Nikolas Herbst, the co-author of the 10-year Most Influential Paper. The traditional Best Paper Award went to Raffaela Groner and co-authors for the best research paper, and Aris Leivadeas and co-authors for the best industry paper.

Next ICPE …

The next ICPE conference will be held on April 22-26 (tentative), 2024, in London, United Kingdom.