Dear Colleagues: The paper submission deadline for the Special Issue of Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC) on "Data Intensive Computing" is a month from Today (January 15th 2010). We welcome your submissions. We appreciate sharing this announcement with anyone who might be interested. Thank you. Suren Byna NEC Labs America, Inc. 4 Independence Way, Suite 200 Princeton, NJ. Xian-He Sun Department of Computer Science Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, IL. ====================================================================== Our apologies for duplicated copies for this CfP ====================================================================== Call for Papers: Special Issue of Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing on "Data Intensive Computing" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- Data intensive computing is posing many challenges in exploiting parallelism of current and upcoming computer architectures. Data volumes of applications in the fields of sciences and engineering, finance, media, online information resources, etc. are expected to double every two years over the next decade and further. With this continuing data explosion, it is necessary to store and process data efficiently by utilizing enormous computing power that is available in the form of multicore/manycore platforms. There is no doubt in the industry and research community that the importance of data intensive computing has been raising and will continue to be the foremost fields of research. This raise brings up many research issues, in forms of capturing and accessing data effectively and fast, processing it while still achieving high performance and high throughput, and storing it efficiently for future use. Programming for high performance yielding data intensive computing is an important challenging issue. Expressing data access requirements of applications and designing programming language abstractions to exploit parallelism are at immediate need. Application and domain specific optimizations are also parts of a viable solution in data intensive computing. While these are a few examples of issues, research in data intensive computing has become quite intense during the last few years yielding strong results. This special issue of the Journal Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC) is seeking original unpublished research articles that describe recent advances and efforts in the design and development of data intensive computing, functionalities and capabilities that will benefit many applications. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Data-intensive applications and their challenges * Storage and file systems * High performance data access toolkits * Fault tolerance, reliability, and availability * Meta-data management * Remote data access * Programming models, abstractions for data intensive computing * Compiler and runtime support * Data capturing, management, and scheduling techniques * Future research challenges of data intensive computing * Performance optimization techniques * Replication, archiving, preservation strategies * Real-time data intensive computing * Network support for data intensive computing * Challenges and solutions in the era of multi/many-core platforms * Stream computing * Green (Power efficient) data intensive computing * Security and protection of sensitive data in collaborative environments * Data intensive computing on accelerators and GPUs Guide for Authors Papers need not be solely abstract or conceptual in nature: proofs and experimental results can be included as appropriate. Authors should follow the JPDC manuscript format as described in the "Information for Authors" at the end of each issue of JPDC or at http://ees.elsevier.com/jpdc/ . The journal version will be reviewed as per JPDC review process for special issues. Important Dates: Paper Submission : January 15, 2010 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection : May 31, 2010 Final Version of the Paper : September 15, 2010 Submission Guidelines All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted through Elsevier Editorial System (EES) at http://ees.elsevier.com/jpdc. Authors must select "Special Issue: Data Intensive Computing" when they reach the "Article Type" step in the submission process. First time users must register themselves as Author. For the latest details of the JPDC special issue see http://www.cs.iit.edu/~suren/jpdc. Guest Editors: Dr. Surendra Byna NEC Labs America E-mail: [email protected] Prof. Xian-He Sun Illinois Institute of Technology E-mail: [email protected]