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Computational Storage</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p>

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Kim</a>, Professor at Seoul National University<br>
<a href="mailto:yangseok.ki@Samsung.com" target="_blank">Yang Seok Ki</a>, Sr. Director at Samsung Memory
Software Lab.<br>
<a href="mailto:riedel+at+cs.cmu.edu" target="_blank">Erik
Riedel</a>, Founder and Principal Consultant at Works Together
LLC. </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="line-height:15.6pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:top;word-break:keep-all;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740  \00ace0\00b515""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Since the first hard disk drive (HDD) was introduced in 1956, storage
devices have remained “dumb” for more than 60 years. However, ever growing
demand for big data processing and recent advances in storage technology are
reshaping the traditional CPU-centric computing paradigm. Many studies show
that the energy consumed by data movement is starting to exceed the energy
consumed by computation. In particular, the advent of high-performance
solid-state drives (SSDs) based on non-volatile memory (e.g., NAND flash
memory, 3D XPoint, etc.) opens up new opportunities for storage-centric
computing paradigm.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="line-height:15.6pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:top;word-break:keep-all;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740  \00ace0\00b515""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">In response to these trends, the SNIA (Storage Networking Industry
Association) has recently formed a Technical Work Group on <i>computational
storage</i>. Computational storage is defined as any storage architecture that
integrates computational features with the normal storage features in various
forms to enhance performance, scalability, and energy efficiency. Samsung’s
KVSSD (Key-Value SSD), a new type of SSD that offloads indexing and space
management to the storage device by adopting a key-value interface, could be a
first step toward computational storage.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="line-height:15.6pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:top;word-break:keep-all;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740  \00ace0\00b515""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">The goal of this special issue of the <i>ACM Transactions on Storage</i> is
to foster research and development in computational storage. This special issue
welcomes contributions that showcase new storage architectures for
computational storage and software ecosystems surrounding computational
storage, as well as case studies with real data-intensive applications.</span></p>

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range of disciplines to submit to this special issue. Topics of interest
include, but are not limited to:</span></p>

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interface for computational storage</span></p>

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storage architecture based on Key-Value SSDs (KVSSDs)</span></p>

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storage architecture based on SSDs with hardware accelerators</span></p>

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stack for computational storage</span></p>

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studies with computational storage</span></p>

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modeling and development tools for computational storage</span></p>

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material not published in nor submitted to other journals. Each paper will be
reviewed by at least three expert reviewers. Papers which do not meet
publication quality standards, or do not pass the editorial assessment of
suitability of this special issue will be rejected before the review process.
Full papers should be submitted through the ACM Manuscript Central at <a href="https://orange.hosting.lsoft.com/trk/click?ref=znwrbbrs9_6-20418x31aecfx01501&" target="_blank">mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tos</a>,
select paper type "SI: Computational Storage". Details of the author
guidelines for ACM Transactions on Storage are available at <a href="https://tos.acm.org/authors.cfm" target="_blank">https://tos.acm.org/authors.cfm</a>.</span></p>

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Full paper submission deadline: January 15, 2020<br>
Review decision notification: May 15, 2020<br>
Final manuscript deadline: June 1, 2020<br>
Publication target date: 2020 August Issue</span></p>

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