ACM SIGARCH

ACM SIGARCH is the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on computer architecture, a community of computer professionals and students from academia and industry involved in research and professional practice related to computer architecture and design.^[1] The organization sponsors many prestigious international conferences in this area, including the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), recognized as the top conference in this area since 1975.^[2] Together with IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Computer Architecture (TCCA), it is one of the two main professional organizations for people working in computer architecture.^[3]

Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture (ACM SIGARCH)

Founded	August 1971; 53 years ago (1971-08)
Focus	Computer architecture
Area served	International
Website	www.sigarch.org
Formerly called	SICARCH

ACM SIGARCH was formed in August 1971, initially as a Special Interest Committee (a precursor to a SIG), with Michael J. Flynn as the founding chairman.^[4][5] Flynn was also the founding chairman of IEEE Computer Society's TCCA^[6] and encouraged from the beginning, joint cooperation between the two groups.^[7] Many of the joint symposiums and conferences are the leading events in the field.^[8][9]

Journal

ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News is a newsletter, started in January 1972, that publishes refereed articles about computer hardware and its interactions with compilers and operating systems.^[10]

Conferences

ACM SIGARCH sponsors many top international conferences related to computer architecture.^[11][12]

• ASPLOS: ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems
• ANCS: ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems
• CCGrid: ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing
• HPDC: ACM International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing
• ICS: ACM International Conference on Supercomputing
• IPDPS: IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
• ISCA: ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture
• NANOCOM: ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication
• NOCS: ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip
• PACT: ACM/IEEE International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation
• SenSys: ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
• SPAA: ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures
• UCC: IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing

Awards

SIGARCH offers a variety of awards for outstanding contributions to computer architecture:

• Maurice Wilkes Award
• Eckert-Mauchly Award (with IEEE Computer Society)
• ISCA Influential Paper Award (with IEEE-CS TCCA)
• Alan D. Berenbaum Distinguished Service Award
• ASPLOS Influential Paper Award

See also

• Computer engineering
• Computer science
• Computing

References

1. "SIGARCH". ACM SIGARCH. Association for Computing Machinery. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
2. "Acceptance rates in my top conferences". Purdue Engineering. Purdue University. Retrieved 4 June 2017.
3. "The ACM/IEEE ISCA 2015". Electrical & Computer Engineering. Carnegie Mellon University. Retrieved 4 June 2017.
4. "SICARCH Formed" (PDF). Computer Architecture News. 1: 1. January 1972.
5. Foster, C. C. (1972). "Computer Architecture". Computer. 5 (2): 18–19. doi:10.1109/C-M.1972.216888. ISSN 0018-9162.
6. "Michael J. Flynn • IEEE Computer Society". www.computer.org. Retrieved 2017-06-04.
7. "Chairman's Report" (PDF). Computer Architecture News. 1: 2. January 1972.
8. "Computer Science Conference Rank". lipn.univ-paris13.fr. Archived from the original on 2017-06-04. Retrieved 2017-06-04.
9. "CORE Conference Portal: A* conferences".
10. "ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News". ACM Digital Library. Association for Computing Machinery. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
11. "Top Computer Science Conferences". www.guide2research.com. Retrieved 2017-06-04.
12. "SIGARCH-sponsored Conferences". SIGARCH. 2017-05-25. Retrieved 2017-06-04.

External links

• SIGARCH