Guest Editors’ Introduction: Hardware Accelerators for Data Centers

Guest Editors' Introduction: Data Mining in Bioinformatics

B ioinformatics and data mining provide exciting and challenging research and application areas for computational science. Bioinformatics is the science of managing, mining, and interpreting information from biological sequences and structures. Advances such as genome-sequencing initiatives, microarrays, proteomics, and functional and structural genomics have pushed the frontiers of human knowl...

Guest Editors' Introduction: Agents and Data Mining

Guest Editors' Introduction: Raising the Abstraction Level of Hardware Design

DESIGN COMPLEXITY is continually rising with the higher levels of integration implied by Moore’s law. Functional complexity increases with our ability to incorporate more computation in SoCs and to create more complex applications. Additional complexity is also introduced in the design process by the need to control power consumption and to tackle challenges with respect to physical timing clos...

Guest Editors’ Introduction: Hardware Acceleration in Computational Biology

h IT IS OUR pleasure to introduce this special issue on Hardware Acceleration in Computational Biology. The role of computing in molecular biology research has never been more defining. The synergy has reached a critical juncture where the rate of data generation is rapidly outpacing the rate at which it is processed. Most of the data processing for biocomputing applications currently is done i...

Guest Editors' Introduction: Confronting the Hardware Trustworthiness Problem

THE EMERGENCE OF a globalized, horizontal semiconductor business model raises concerns involving the security and trust of the information systems on which modern society is increasingly reliant for mission-critical functionality. Hardware security and trust issues span a broad spectrum of topics ranging from the malicious insertion of Trojan circuits designed to act as a silicon time bomb to d...