[Storage-research-list] TOS Call for Papers: Special Issue on Computational Storage

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CALL FOR PAPERS

*ACM Transactions on Storage*

*Special Issue on Computational Storage*

*Guest Editors:*

Jin-Soo Kim <jinsoo.kim at snu.ac.kr>, Professor at Seoul National University
Yang Seok Ki <yangseok.ki at Samsung.com>, Sr. Director at Samsung Memory
Software Lab.
Erik Riedel <riedel+at+cs.cmu.edu>, Founder and Principal Consultant at
Works Together LLC.


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*Overview*

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.

In response to these trends, the SNIA (Storage Networking Industry
Association) has recently formed a Technical Work Group on *computational
storage*. 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.

The goal of this special issue of the *ACM Transactions on Storage* 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.

We invite academic researchers and industry professionals from a broad
range of disciplines to submit to this special issue. Topics of interest
include, but are not limited to:

·  New enriched interface for computational storage

·  Computational storage architecture based on Key-Value SSDs (KVSSDs)

·  Computational storage architecture based on SSDs with hardware
accelerators

·  Host software stack for computational storage

·  Application case studies with computational storage

·  Performance modeling and development tools for computational storage

*Submission Guidelines*

Manuscripts submitted to the special issue should contain original 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 mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tos
<https://orange.hosting.lsoft.com/trk/click?ref=znwrbbrs9_6-20418x31aecfx01501&>,
select paper type "SI: Computational Storage". Details of the author
guidelines for ACM Transactions on Storage are available at
https://tos.acm.org/authors.cfm.

*Important Dates*

Open for submissions: August 15, 2019
Full paper submission deadline: January 15, 2020
Review decision notification: May 15, 2020
Final manuscript deadline: June 1, 2020
Publication target date: 2020 August Issue


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