guest editorial: computing frontiers
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Int J Parallel ProgDOI 10.1007/s10766-012-0215-8
EDITORIAL
Guest Editorial: Computing Frontiers
Hubertus Franke · Paul H. J. Kelly ·Pedro Trancoso
© Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012
This special issue presents journal versions of four of the best papers from ACMComputing Frontiers 2010. Each paper has been extensively expanded and peer-reviewed according rigorous academic journal standards. Our aim in presenting themin a special issue of IJPP is to highlight some of the highest quality research at thefrontiers of computer systems research.
The increasing complexity and performance needs of current and future applicationsrequire novel and innovative approaches for the design of various types of computingsystems: embedded, mobile, high-performance, and more. Boundaries between stateof the art and revolutionary innovation constitute the computing frontiers that must bepushed forward to provide the computational support required for the advancement ofscience and engineering. The computing frontiers conference series focuses on a widespectrum of advanced technologies and radically new solutions relevant to develop-ment of computer systems and aims to foster communication among scientists andengineers to achieve this.
Four papers were selected from the 2010 conference program as particularly com-pelling instances of such frontier research. The papers were selected both on the basis
H. FrankeThomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USAe-mail: [email protected]
P. H. J. Kelly (B)Department of Computing, Imperial College London, 180 Queen’s Gate,London SW7 2AZ, UKe-mail: [email protected]
P. TrancosoDepartment of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, 75 Kallipoleos Str.,P.O. Box 20537, 1678 Nicosia, Cypruse-mail: [email protected]
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of very high evaluations from the conference Program Committee, and, after the con-ference presentations, because of the evident significance and promise of the workthat was reported:
– Managing Burstiness and Scalability in Event-Driven Models on the SpiNNakerNeuromimetic System, by Alexander Rast, Javier Navaridas, Xin Jin, FrancescoGalluppi, Luis Plana, José Miguel-Alonso, Cameron Patterson, Mikel Luján andSteve Furber
– Cache-Integrated Network Interfaces: Flexible On-chip Communication and Syn-chronization for Large-scale CMPs, by Stamatis Kavadias, Manolis KatevenisMichail Zampetakis, Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos,
– Parallel Mining of Neuronal Spike Streams on Graphics Processing Units, by YongCao, Debprakash Patnaik, Sean Ponce, Jeremy Archuleta, Patrick Butler, Wu-chunFeng and Naren Ramakrishnan,
– Runtime Techniques to Enable a highly-scalable global address space model forpetascale computing, by Vinod Tipparaju, Edoardo Apra, Weikuan Yu, Xinyu Queand Jeffrey S. Vetter,
The papers range in topic from fascinating computational science applications push-ing the frontiers of computational neuroscience, to novel communication in manycoreprocessor architecture, to understanding streams of events from instrumentation of thebrain, to effective exploitation of the largest supercomputers. This is just a sample,and a snapshot, of the frontier of computer systems research at a particular point intime; we hope they provide an inspiring perspective for developments that will exposenew frontiers for the future.
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