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SIGMETRICS Viability Review
Albert Greenberg
SIGMETRICS Chair
October 2006
Financials
• 2006 fund balance approximately $356K– Up from $323K in 2002– $51K now required vs. $26K in 2002
• Fund raising– Industrial sponsors: SIGMETRICS ’06 –
France Telecom, HP, IBM, Microsoft, VMWARE
– SIGMETRICS ’07 (at FCRC) – Google, working on others
Membership• Relatively stable membership
– 2006: >70% one year retention– Current membership about 500
• Decline from 546 in 2002
• Looking to broaden in SIGMETRICS areas of interest – Broader PC covering high performance computing, networking,
databases, fault tolerance, performance analysis, tools, mathematical foundations
– Advertising in wider range of venues (30 user groups, very diverse)– Broaden numbers of papers accepted and areas of papers accepted
• Initiatives under discussion for annual conference– Student “pre-interviews”– Funding centric workshops– Educational tutorials
Conferences and Workshops• 50-100% sponsorship
– WOSP, SelfManage, MAMA, SysML, ICQT, Job Scheduling
• Official home of MAMA -- strong successful workshop with SIGMETRICS for 9 years
– Alternate years our conference is joint with IFIP W.G. 7.3 on Performance
• 10-50% sponsorship– SENSYS
• Recently, large fraction of (analytical or network measurement) networking papers– In SIGMETRICS ’07 we are reaching out to the
computing communities• Highly recognizable names from: Architecture, High
Performance Computing, Databases, CS Theory, Operations Research, …
• PR push – posters, mailing lists
Publications
• SIGMETRICS Newsletter– 4 issues, typically devoted to special topics
• Tools for Computer Architecture Research• E-commerce• Performance and Verification• Large Scale Network Inference• Design Implementation and Performance of Storage Systems• Advances in Scheduling
– One issue every year devoted to MAMA– Proceedings of SIGMETRICS
• SIGMETRICS bulletin board
SIGMETRICS Community Benefits
• Awards sponsored:– Annual Achievement Award– Ken Sevcik Best Paper Award– “Rising Star” award being developed – exceptional
contribution from a member ~ 7 to 10 years post graduation
• Ideas for the future– Industry and academic pre-interviews at conferences– Increased industrial contacts and interactions
Backup
Incentives to Increase Membership
• Discussing incentives to increase membership– Industry interactions and “pre-interviews” for students– Similar for academia– Provides volunteer development opportunities
• Funding-centric workshops to better align researchers and NSF program managers– Increasing NSF funding for SIGMETRICS members– In allied disciplines (e.g., High Performance
Computing), what are the opportunities• A Future Direction: Educational tutorials
– Geared towards industry – e.g., intense performance modeling, optimization classes for industry