Call for Papers: IEEE Micro Special Issue on Near Data Processing Guest co-editors: Rajeev Balasubramonian, University of Utah Boris Grot, University of Edinburgh Initial submissions due: July 3rd 2015 Publication date: Jan/Feb 2016 Scope: Systems executing big-data workloads commonly move large volumes of data through the memory and storage hierarchy, only to perform a modest amount of computation on each data element. As a result, performance and energy-efficiency of these systems is increasingly limited by the high cost of data movement. To alleviate this bottleneck and leverage the high bandwidths within memory and storage devices, there is a growing interest in abstractions and technologies to move computation closer to the data. This notion of Near-Data Processing (NDP) extends earlier research on Processing-in-Memory by leveraging new technologies (e.g., 3D stacking) and emerging workloads (e.g., in-memory databases). This IEEE Micro special issue seeks papers on a range of topics related to NDP, including: - Memory, storage and interconnect architectures for NDP - Near-Data accelerators and computation offload models - Trade-offs and limitations in moving computation to the data - Programming models, runtimes, and tools in support of NDP - Case studies and evaluation of NDP systems and workloads - Cross-cutting issues in the context of NDP systems, including security, reliability, and code portability Important Dates: Initial submissions due: July 3rd 2015 Initial notifications: August 31st 2015 Revised papers due: September 25th 2015 Final notifications: November 5th 2015 Final versions due: November 15th 2015 Publication date: Jan/Feb 2016 Submission procedure: Log onto IEEE CS Manuscript Central (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/micro-cs) and submit your manuscript. Please direct questions to the IEEE Micro magazine assistant (micro-ma@computer.org) regarding the submission site. For the manuscript submission, acceptable file formats include Microsoft Word and PDF. Manuscripts should not exceed 5,000 words including references, with each average-size figure counting as 250 words toward this limit. Please include all figures and tables, as well as a cover page with author contact information (name, postal address, phone, fax, and email address) and a 200-word abstract. Submitted manuscripts must not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere, and all manuscripts must be cleared for publication. All previously published papers must have at least 30% new content compared to any conference (or other) publication. Accepted articles will be edited for structure, style, clarity, and readability. For more information, please visit the IEEE Micro Author Center Questions: Please contact Guest co-editors Rajeev Balasubramonian (rajeev@cs.utah.edu) and Boris Grot (boris.grot@ed.ac.uk), or Editor-in-Chief Lieven Eeckhout (lieven.eeckhout@ugent.be). |
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