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In past year’s the best papers on interconnect microarchitecture have been invited to submit extended versions of their papers to special journal editions, we are pursuing this once again this year. Selected papers from last year’s Hot Interconnects are being published in the a special Hot Interconnects issue of IEEE Micro.

Hot Interconnects is the premier international forum for researchers and developers of state-of-the-art hardware and software architectures and implementations for interconnection networks of all scales, ranging from multi-core on-chip interconnects to those within systems, clusters, data centers, and clouds. This yearly conference is attended by leaders in industry and academia. The atmosphere provides for a wealth of opportunities to interact with individuals at the forefront of this field.

Themes include cross-cutting issues spanning computer systems, networking technologies, and communication protocols for high-performance interconnection networks. This conference is directed particularly at new and exciting technology and product innovations in these areas.

Contributions should focus on real experimental systems, prototypes, or leading-edge products and their performance evaluation.

We invite paper submissions across a wide range of topics and levels, ranging from fundamentals to the latest advances in hot topic areas.

Topics of Interests

    Novel and innovative interconnect architectures
    Multi-core processor interconnects
    System-on-Chip Interconnects
    Advanced chip-to-chip communication technologies
    Optical interconnects Protocol and interfaces for inter-processor communication
    Survivability and fault-tolerance of inter-connects
    High-speed packet processing engines and network processors
    Systems software for communication
    System and storage area network architectures and protocols
    High-performance host-network interface architectures
    High-bandwidth and low-latency I/O
    Pb/s switching and routing technologies
    Innovative architectures for supporting collective communication
    Novel communication architectures to support cloud & grid computing
    Centralized and distributed cloud interconnects
    Requirements driving high-performance interconnects
    Traffic characterization for HPC systems and commercial data centers
    Software-defined networking and software overlay networks
    Software for network bring-up, configuration and performance management (OpenFlow, OpenSM)
    Data Center Networking