Introduction to the Special Issue on the 18th International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing

摘要

This special issue of the International Journal of Parallel Programming is devoted to some of the best papers presented at the 18th edition of the International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing, also known as SBAC-PAD (the acronym comes from the time the symposium was in Portuguese-Simposio Brasileiro de Arquitetura de Computadores e Computacao de Alto Desempenho-and is kept for tradition), which was held at the city of Ouro Preto, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, in October, 2006. Annually, SBAC-PAD gathers users, developers and researchers from academic, industrial and governmental R&D institutions to discuss progress and exchange ideas on the many aspects of computer architecture and high performance parallel and distributed computing. SBAC-PAD'2006 was sponsored by the Brazilian Computer Society (Sociedade Brasileira de Computacao-SBC), co-sponsored by IEEE Computer Society (TCCA - TCSC), and held in cooperation with IFIP Working Group 10.3 (Concurrent Systems). The six SBAC-PAD'2006 papers selected to be included in this issue reflect the breadth of the topics covered in the symposium and the many opportunities there are today for research on computer architecture and high performance computing.