Emerging Technologies for Computer Architecture and Parallel Systems

Dear Colleagues,

Even though research on computer architecture spans a continuous period of over eighty years, it is a vivid area of research because it encompasses a multitude of research topics and its breakthroughs have a substantial impact on individuals, society, and humankind. It is not a stretch to say that computer architecture is prevalent everywhere, affecting our lives. Computer architecture addresses all design and implementation challenges from the single small embedded microprocessor to the high-performance multi-CPU multi-computer cluster. Furthermore, application domains like robotics, autonomous driving, big data, blockchains, machine learning, and others have to keep raising the bar of requirements, vehemently piquing the interest of researchers. Even though the insatiable performance and energy optimization demands are always at the epicenter of novel computer architectures, we can see that new goals have started to surface, like sustainable computer architectures, heterogenous computing, big data, accelerators, approximate computing, and others. All these emerging topics for computer architecture have motivated researchers to present methodologies, tools, and technologies to alleviate the hurdles and move forward with the existing knowledge.

This Special Issue aims to gather contributions on the emerging issues, technologies, approaches, techniques, and applications of homogenous or heterogenous computer architecture (CA) and parallel systems. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Design methodologies for computer architectures;

CAD support for new computer architectures;

Modeling of computer architectures;

Application specific computer architectures;

Heterogenous computing;

Approximate computing;

High performance computing;

Adaptive and reconfigurable computing;

High level synthesis tools and applications;

Evaluation for computer architectures;

Improved memory architectures;

IoT, mobile and embedded computer architecture;

Cloud computer architecture;

Parallelism in instruction, threads, execution units, coprocessors and data;

Multicore or multicomputer architectures;

Optimized input/output computer architectures;

Quantum computing architectures;

Computer architectures and memristors;

CPU interconnectivity and network on chips;

Computer architecture security and resiliency;

Fast prototyping computer architectures;

Verification, evaluation and test of computer architectures

Dr. Minas Dasygenis
Dr. Athanasios Kakarountas
Dr. Savvas A. Chatzichristofis
Guest Editors

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