The VLDB Journal - Call for Papers: Special issue on Modern Hardware
The continued evolution of computing hardware and infrastructure imposes new challenges and bottlenecks to program performance. As a result, traditional database architectures that focus solely on I/O optimization increasingly fail to utilize hardware resources efficiently. Multi-core CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, new memory and storage technologies (such as flash and non-volatile memory), and low-power hardware imposes a great challenge to optimizing database performance. Consequently, exploiting the characteristics of modern hardware has become an important topic of database systems research.
The goal is to make database systems adapt automatically to the sophisticated hardware characteristics, thus maximizing performance transparently to applications. To achieve this goal, the data management community needs interdisciplinary collaboration with computer architecture, compiler, operating systems and storage researchers. This involves rethinking traditional data structures, query processing algorithms, and database software architectures to adapt to the advances in the underlying hardware infrastructure.
In this special issue, we solicit innovative research articles that explore the area of database systems to computer architecture, compilers, and operating systems. In particular, submissions covering topics from the following non-exclusive list are encouraged:
- database algorithms and data structures on modern hardware
- cost models and query optimization for novel hierarchical memory systems
- hardware systems for query processing
- data management using co-processors
- novel application of new storage technologies to data management
- query processing using computing power in storage systems
- database architectures for low-power computing and embedded devices
- database architectures on multi-threaded and chip multiprocessors
- performance analysis of database workloads on modern hardware
- compiler and operating systems advances to improve database performance
- new benchmarks for micro-architectural evaluation of database workloads
- taking advantage of modern network capabilities for data processing
Guest Editors
Norman May, SAP SE, Germany (norman.may@sap.com (this opens in a new tab))
Spyros Blanas, The Ohio State University, USA (blanas.2@osu.edu (this opens in a new tab))
Danica Porobic, Oracle, Switzerland (danica.porobic@oracle.com (this opens in a new tab))
Important Dates
Initial Submissions: March 14th, 2023
First-round Decisions: May 31, 2023
Revised Versions: July 31, 2023
Final Decisions: September 30, 2023
Submission Guidelines:
Authors should prepare their manuscript according to the Instructions for Authors available from the VLDB website (this opens in a new tab). Authors should submit through the online submission site at https://www.editorialmanager.com/vldb/default2.aspx (this opens in a new tab) and select “SI Special Issue on Modern Hardware" when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process. Submitted papers should present original, unpublished work, relevant to the topics of the special issue. All submitted papers will be evaluated on the basis of relevance, significance of contribution, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation, by at least three independent reviewers. It is the policy of the journal that no submission, or substantially overlapping submission, be published or be under review at another journal or conference at any time during the review process. Final decisions on all papers are made by the Editor in Chief.