Guest Editors´ Introduction: Hot Interconnects 12

Hot Interconnects is an annual conference that specializes in state-of-the-art hardware and software architectures, and implementations of interconnection networks of all scales, ranging from on-chip, processor-memory interconnects to wide-area networks. It is the event where the high-performance computing and high-speed networking communities meet, and has a wide attendance both from industry and academia. Hot Interconnects 12 convened from 25 to 27 August 2004 at Stanford University; it included two days of paper sessions and one day of tutorials. Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Microprocessors and Microcomputers, Hot Interconnects also has technical cosponsorship from the IEEE Communications Society Technical Committees on High-Speed Networking and Communications Switching and Routing.