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HotMetrics 2008 June 6, 2008 Annapolis, MD First Workshop on Hot Topics in Measurement & Modeling of Computer Systems Sponsored by ACM SIGMETRICS Workshop Program 8:30am-8:40am Welcome 8:40am-9:45am Invited Talk and Discussion: Ed Coffman Self Assembly Processes: Challenging Problems at Nano, Meso, and Macro Scalings 9:45am-10am Coffee Break 10am-12pm Session I: Systems, Services and Energy Image Management In a Virtualized Data Center Tingxi Tan        Grid Research Centre, University of Calgary Rob Simmonds        Grid Research Centre, University of Calgary Bradley Arlt        Grid Research Centre, University of Calgary Martin Arlitt        HP Labs Bruce Walker       HP Labs Discussant: Prashant Shenoy (University of Massachusetts) Co-designing the Failure Analysis and Monitoring of Large-Scale Systems Abhishek Chandra        University of Minnesota, Twin cities   Rohini Prinja      University of Minnesota, Twin cities   Sourabh Jain        University of Minnesota, Twin cities   Zhi-Li Zhang       University of Minnesota, Twin cities Discussant: John Douceur (Microsoft Research) Automatic Request Categorization in Internet Services Abhishek Sharma        University of Southern California   Ranjita Bhagwan        Microsoft Research, India   Monojit Choudhury        Microsoft Research, India Leana Golubchik        University of Southern California   Ramesh Govindan        University of Southern California   Geoffrey Voelker        University of California, San Diego Discussant: Cathy Xia (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center) Fine-Grained Energy Profiling for Power-Aware Application Design Aman Kansal        Microsoft Research   Feng Zhao        Microsoft Research Discussant: Abhishek Chandra (University of Minnesota) Discussion notes for session-I: (Scribe: Brian L. Mark, George Mason University) [pdf] 12:00pm-1:00pm Lunch 1:00pm-2:30pm Session II: Headers and Workloads Long Range Mutual Information Nahur Fonseca        Boston University, Computer Science Dep. Mark Crovella        Boston University, Computer Science Dep.   Kave Salamatian        Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6 Discussant: Walter Willinger (AT&T Research) How to Parameterize Models with Bursty Workloads Giuliano Casale        College of William and Mary Ningfang Mi        College of William and Mary  Ludmila Cherkasova        Hewlett-Packard Lab   Evgenia Smirni        College of William and Mary Discussant: Adam Wierman (CALTECH) DRAM is Plenty Fast for Wirespeed Statistics Counting Bill Lin        University of California, San Diego   Jun Xu       Georgia Institute of Technology Discussant: Vishal Misra/Jia Wang (Columbia University/AT&T Research) Discussion notes for session-II: (Scribe: Abhishek Sharma, University of South California) [pdf] 2:30pm-2:45pm Coffee Break 2:45pm -4:15pm Session III: Benchmarking, Simulations and Validations Towards Realistic File-System Benchmarks with CodeMRI Nitin Agrawal       University of Wisconsin Madison Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau        University of Wisconsin Madison Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau       University of Wisconsin Madison Discussant: Arif Merchant (HP Labs) Synchronized Network Emulation: Matching prototypes with complex simulations Elias Weingärtner        RWTH Aachen University Florian Schmidt        RWTH Aachen University Tobias Heer        RWTH Aachen University Klaus Wehrle        RWTH Aachen University Discussant: Leana Golubchik (University of Southern California) What are our standards for validation of measurement-based networking research? Balachander Krishnamurthy        AT&T Labs-Research Walter Willinger        AT&T Labs-Research Discussant: John C.S. Lui (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Discussion notes for session-III: (Scribe: Nahur Fonseca, Boston University) [pdf] 4:15pm-4:30pm Coffee Break 4:30pm-(5:30pm?) Session IV: Open-Forum Discussions and Wrap-Up