CfP special issue on Signal Processing on Platforms with Multiple Cores
Yen-Kuang Chen
Below is a special issue CfP for IEEE Signal Processing Magazine.
Please feel free to distribute to anyone who might be interested in
submitting a paper.
Thanks,
YK
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IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
Special Issue on Signal Processing on Platforms with Multiple Cores
Multi-core processors are now prevalent everywhere from desktops and
graphics processors to laptops and embedded systems. Technology
predictions indicate that this trend will continue and that there will
be increasing numbers of cores (homogenous or heterogeneous) in future
systems. It is clear that signal processing systems of tomorrow will
be (and must be) implemented on platforms with multiple cores. This
special issue is to address the principal technical trends and
challenges of signal processing on systems with multiple/many cores.
While the challenges of designing multi-core systems in hardware are
many, writing efficient parallel applications that utilize the
computing capability of many processing cores may reveal to be even
more challenging. Existing serial algorithms will need to be
redesigned -- the best sequential algorithm is not necessarily the
best parallel algorithm.
Signal processing algorithm designers must understand the nuances of a
multi-core computing engine. Only then can the tremendous computing
power that such platforms provide be harnessed efficiently.
The intention of this special issue is to attract tutorial-style
papers on (1) trends, fundamental driving forces, potential challenges
of systems with multiple cores, and (2) software techniques and
algorithmic modifications that are effective in performing signal
processing on multiple cores. Possible topical areas include, but are
not limited to, the following topics.
=== Scope of topics ===
1. Trends that will influence the future signal processing application design.
a. Survey of commercial processor trends
b. Survey of design and implementation of multi-core
SoC/DSP/CPU/GPU architectures
c. Survey of programming support, e.g., languages and compilers
d. Survey of CAD support
2. Design methodologies and examples of signal processing on multi-core systems.
a. Systematic methods to exploit multi-core architectures efficiently
b. Principles for design and optimization of algorithms for
multi-core architectures
c. Emerging applications and usage models that are enabled by
multi-core architectures
d. Design examples in important signal processing application
areas, including multimedia, medical imaging, wireless communications,
bio-medical signal processing, and genomics
=== Submission Procedure ===
Prospective authors should submit white papers/manuscripts to the web
submission system at http://www.ee.columbia.edu/spm/ according to the
following timetable.
The authors should first submit a white paper that summarizes the
motivation, the significance of the topic, key takeaway messages, a
brief history (important references if necessary), and an outline of
the content. The white paper should be no more than 2 pages in the
IEEE single-space double-column format.
=== Schedule ===
* White paper due: Dec. 15, 2008
* Invitation notification: Jan. 15, 2009
* Full manuscript due: Mar. 22, 2009
* Decision based on the initial manuscript: May 15, 2009
* Revised manuscript due: June 15, 2009
* Acceptance notification: July 7, 2009
* Final manuscript due: July 15, 2009
* Target publication date: Nov 2009
=== Guest Editors ===
Yen-Kuang Chen
Intel Corporation, USA
yen-kua...@intel.com
Chaitali Chakrabarti
Arizona State Univ., USA
chai...@asu.edu
Shuvra Bhattacharyya
Univ. of Maryland at College Park, USA
s...@umd.edu
Bruno Bougard
Septentrio N.V., Belgium
bruno....@septentrio.com