Introduction: Special Section on Architecture of Future Many Core Systems

In the past decades, high-performance computing has played key role to advance the emerging technologies from social netorks, search engines, and cell phones to humanoid robotics. The ver-increasing growth of high-performance computing has continously brought more opportunities for system designers to revisit oth enterprise and end-user applications. The significant advanceent of high-performance computing is owed to many-core archiecture which has been the main focus of numerous academic and ndustrial research projects in the last years and it is expected to ontinue as a dominant research topic in the next decade. Despite significant studies in many-core architectures, further dvancement is prohibited by several important issues such as ower wall, reduced yield, memory wall, and design complexity. n particular, Future Many Core Systems (FMCSs) require more speialized architectures in order to further integrate the advantages f more than ten billions transistors available on-chip. In addition o such design challenges, with the paradigm shift in daily appliations used in Cloud and datacenters from E-commerce, On-Lineransactional Processing (OLTP), gaming, online storage, and Geomics to Big Data applications such as clustering and graph anlytics, FMCSs should be designed such that the new applications an benefit from emerging multi-core systems. To foster the research momentum on many-core architectures, lsevier Microprocessors and Microsystems has scheduled a special ssue on FMCS addressing both micro-architectural and systemevel issues. For this special issue, we have received 14 submissions rom nine countries, out of which seven submissions have been seected in the first round of review process. Finally, after detailed eview of the revised submissions, four papers have been accepted or publication in this issue. More than sixty reviewers, carefully elected among distinguished researchers from both industry and cademia, have helped us to evaluate manuscripts submitted for ublication in this special issue.