Guest Editorial: IEEE TC Special Issue On Communications for Many-core Processors and Accelerators

The papers in this special section focuses on communications for mmany core processors and accelerators. Communications in various forms have become increasingly important with the advent of diverse computing platforms, such as many-core CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, machine learning accelerators, and other domain-specific processors. Meanwhile, data-intensive workloads pose greater challenges to both on-chip and off-chip communications, whereas emerging technologies offer new opportunities for interconnection networks. These trends on architecture, application and technology require innovative communication designs for the next generation of computing systems. This special section is intended to explore academic and industrial research on all topics related to the communication issues in general-purpose and domain-specific processors.