chas@sauron.Columbia.NCR.COM (Charles.Gimarc) (05/23/91)
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CALL FOR PAPERS AND REFEREES
HICSS - 25
Kauai, Hawaii January 7-10, 1992
Architecture Track, I/O Bottleneck Mini-Track
Breaking the I/O Bottleneck: Implications to Computer Architecture
The Architecture Track of the 25th Hawaii International Conference on
Systems Sciences (HICSS-25) promises to be an exciting international forum
for advances in many areas of computer architecture. A mini-track, dealing
explicitly with issues related to the "I/O Bottleneck" is being organized.
Over the past decade, tremendous advances in the rate at which CPUs
manipulate data have been achieved. During this time, processing rates
of microprocessor based systems have increased over two orders of magnitude.
With this increase of processing power has also come increases in the volume
of data to be manipulated. The parts of computer systems responsible for
supplying and accepting data have not seen comparable performance increases.
This is due to many factors, including applications with requirements for
much more data, the need to interface with many different standards, and the
fact that I/O devices often have mechanical limitations.
This mini-track will explore the following topics:
* Implications to system performance as external I/O requirements
and CPU data requirements increase.
* Developments in I/O subsystems that increase system performance.
* The storage management revolution. Developments in system
architecture such as intelligent data pathing and storage classes that
can mitigate effects of I/O rates on system performance.
* Emerging technologies that may widen or narrow the bottleneck.
* Application requirements, such as multimedia and imaging, that will
widen or narrow the bottleneck.
The I/O Bottleneck mini-track will include three paper sessions and
opportunity for discussion of relevant issues. Authors are invited to
submit papers describing promising original research, research in progress,
and the results of theoretical or experimental projects dealing with any of
the topics listed above.
Referees are also needed to participate through the review of submissions
to help ensure the quality of the submissions.
HICSS-25 is an annual conference sponsored by the University of Hawaii in
cooperation with ACM, IEEE Computer Society, and the Pacific Research
Institute for Information Systems and Management (PRIISM). A conference
proceedings, containing all accepted papers will be published.
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Schedule: Deadline for Manuscript, 6 Copies: June 5, 1991
Acceptance Notification: August 30, 1991
Final Revision Deadline, Camera Ready: October 1, 1991
Author Information:
* Typed manuscript of 22-25 double spaced pages, including figures.
* Papers cannot have been previously presented, published, or
currently submitted for publication.
* Submit 6 copies of the manuscript.
* Title page includes: Author names
Author affiliations
Author address, surface and e-mail
Abstract of <300 words
Send Submissions, Questions, and Referee Volunteer information to either:
Chas Gimarc or Joe Balazs
NCR Corporation NCR Corporation
3325 Platt Springs Rd. 3325 Platt Springs Rd.
West Columbia, South Carolina West Columbia, SC
USA 29170 USA 29170
chas.gimarc@columbiasc.ncr.com joe.balazs@columbiasc.ncr.com
(803) 791-6668 (803) 739-7412
(803) 791-6998 (Fax)
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