The International Journal of Parallel Programming gratefully acknowledges the editorial work of the following scholars on this special issue “Computing Frontiers:”

Guest Editors:

Dr. Hubertus Franke IBM, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA <frankeh@us.ibm.com>

Dr. Valentina Salapura IBM, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA <salapura@us.ibm.com>

Dr. Claudia Di Napoli, Istituto di Calcolo e Reti ad Alte Prestazioni <claudia.dinapoli@cnr.it>

The seven papers in this section include:

  • An Instrumentation Approach for Hardware-Agnostic Software Characterization, by Andreea Anghel, Laura Mihaela Vasilescu, Giovanni Mariani, Rik Jongerius, Gero Dittman

  • Asteroid: Scalable Online Memory Diagnostics for Multi-core, Multi-socket Servers, by Musfiq Rahman, Bruce R. Childers

  • Scaling Properties of Parallel Applications to Exascale, Giovanni Mariani, by Andreea Anghel, Rik Jongerius, Gero Dittmann

  • Exploring the Design Space of an Energy-Efficient Accelerator for the SKA1-Low Central Signal Processor, by Leandro Fiorin, Erik Vermij, Jan van Lunteren, Rik Jongerius, Christoph Hagleitner

  • Hierarchical Synthesis of Quantum and Reversible Architectures, by Archimedes Pavlidis, Dimitris Gizopoulos 

  • SARP: Synopsis-Based Approximate Request Processing for Low Latency and Small Correctness Loss in Cloud Online Services, by Rui Han, Jianfeng Zhan, Jose Vazquez-Poletti Luis

  • Exploiting Significance of Computations for Energy-Constrained Approximate Computing, Vassilis Vassiliadis, Charalampos Chalios, Konstantinos Parasyris, Christos D. Antonopoulos, Spyros Lalis, Nikolaos Bellas, Hans Vandierendonck, Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos