Topics Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

• - Accelerator-based architectures
• - Ad hoc and sensor networks
• - Application-specific, reconfigurable or embedded architectures
• - Architecture for handheld or mobile devices
• - Architecture, networking or storage modeling and simulation methodologies
• - Big Data infrastructure
• - Big Data services and analytics
• - Cloud and grid computing
• - Cloud storage
• - Data-center scale architectures
• - Effects of circuits and emerging technology on architecture
• - Energy-aware storage
• - File systems, object-based storage
• - GPU architecture and programming
• - HW/SW co-design and tradeoffs
• - Mobile and wireless networks
• - Network applications and services
• - Network architecture and protocols
• - Network information theory
• - Network modeling and measurement
• - Network security
• - Non-volatile memory technologies
• - Parallel and multi-core architectures
• - Parallel I/O
• - Power and energy efficient architectures and techniques
• - Processor, cache, memory system architectures
• - Software defined networking
• - Software defined storage
• - SSD architecture and applications
• - Storage management
• - Storage performance and scalability
• - Storage virtualization and security
• - Virtual and overlay networks