Call For Papers:  Joint workshop of HardBD and Active'21
               co-located at ICDE 2021 in Chania, Crete, Greece

[Main focus] 

Exploiting new hardware technologies for data-intensive workloads and big data
systems.  

[Important Dates]

  Paper submission:             January 18, 2021 (Monday) 11:59:00 PM PT
  Notification of acceptance:   February 8, 2021 (Monday)
  Camera-ready copies:          March 1, 2021 (Monday)
  Workshop:                     April 19, 2021 (Monday)

[Submission]

   submission site: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/HardBDActive2021

   Authors of a selection of accepted papers will be invited to submit an
   extended version to the Distributed and Parallel Databases (DAPD) journal.

[Topics of interest]

   Systems Architecture on New Hardware
   Data Management Issues in Software-Hardware-System Co-design
   Main Memory Data Management (e.g. CPU Cache Behavior, SIMD, Lock-Free 
      Designs, Transactional Memory)
   Data Management on New Memory Technologies (e.g., SSDs, NVMs)
   Active Technologies (e.g., GPUs, FPGAs, and ASICs) in Co-design Architectures
   Distributed Data Management Utilizing New Network Technologies (e.g., RDMA)
   Novel Applications of New Hardware Technologies in Query Processing, 
      Transaction Processing, or Big Data Systems (e.g., Hadoop, Spark, NoSQL, 
      NewSQL, Document Stores, Graph Platforms etc.)
   Novel Applications of Low-Power Modern Processors in Data-Intensive Workloads
   Virtualizing Active Technologies on Cloud (e.g., Scalability and Security)
   Benchmarking, Performance Models, and/or Tuning of Data Management Workloads
      on New Hardware Technologies

[Organizers]

   Shimin Chen, Chinese Academy of Sciences, chensm@ict.ac.cn
   Stefan Manegold, CWI, Stefan.Manegold@cwi.nl
   Mohammad Sadoghi, UC Davis, msadoghi@ucdavis.edu

[PC Members]

   Manos Athanassoulis, Boston University
   Bingsheng He, National University of Singapore
   Peiquan Jin, Univerisity of Science and Technology of China
   Wolfgang Lehner, TU Dresden
   Yinan Li, Microsoft Research
   Qiong Luo, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
   Ilia Petrov, Reutlingen University
   Eva Sitaridi, Amazon
   Tianzheng Wang, Simon Fraser University
   Xiaodong Zhang, Ohio State University

[Web Site]

   http://db.ict.ac.cn/HardBD-Active-2021/