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We recently consolidated our social media presence to two platforms: - Our Mastodon page: discuss.systems/@sigarch - Our LinkedIn page: linkedin.com/company/acm-sig… Please find us in either location to stay up to date with the latest SIGARCH and related community news :)
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Adrian recently handed the SIGARCH social media reins to us, Elba Garza and Jonathan Balkind. We want to first thank Adrian for his long and laugh-filled service, which brought many of us to this side of the architecture community. We hope to continue his unserious tone :)
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Going forward we plan to focus our posting efforts on Mastodon, which is where things had already transitioned over the last year. We'll be posting on discuss.systems/@sigarch and hope that you'll join us there!

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Consider joining the Computer Architecture Long-term Mentorship Program (CALM). You can request a mentor or volunteer to act as one. (Or both!) sigarch.org/a-call-for-parti…

A Call for Participation in The 2023-2024 Computer Architecture Long-term Mentorship Program

Program Overview  The Computer Architecture Long-term Mentorship Program (CALM) was launched by some committee members from Computer Architecture Student Association (CASA) in 2021. The program aim…

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The SIGARCH executive committee changed over earlier this year. The outgoing committee used the occasion to recap the last four years’ work, new initiatives, and crises. sigarch.org/our-sigarch-exec…

Our SIGARCH Executive Committee Journey 2019-2023

  Our executive committee started in July of 2019. Our usual mandate included launching, delivering, and reporting on initiatives based on three pillars in SIGARCH’s mission statement – techni…

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Check out the 14th installment of the Computer Architecture Podcast, featuring Prof. Vivienne Sze on energy efficiency, teaching classes about ML hardware, and the video compression work that won her an Emmy. sigarch.org/other-announceme…

Episode 13 of Computer Architecture Podcast Released! Featuring guest Prof. Vivienne Sze

Computer Architecture Podcast: a series of conversations on cutting-edge work in computer architecture and the remarkable people behind it. Announcing the release of Episode 13: Energy-efficient Al…

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“Serverless” computing is on a rapid growth trajectory. It poses new research problems—for example, to mitigate its restrictions on state & communication or to build special microarchitectural support. sigarch.org/serverless-its-c…

Serverless: It’s Cool, It’s Hot, and It’s Open for Research

Serverless 101 Serverless computing has emerged as a pivotal development and deployment paradigm for cloud computing. According to a recent analyst report, over 50% of companies that use cloud serv…

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Luiz Barroso—author of influential vision papers on energy-proportional computing, “The Tail at Scale,” killer microseconds, and the datacenter as a computer—has passed unexpectedly at 59. Partha Ranganathan, his colleague at Google, remembers Luiz. sigarch.org/remembering-luiz…

Remembering Luiz Barroso

It is with a heavy heart that I pass on the news that our colleague and friend, Luiz André Barroso is no longer with us. Luiz passed away unexpectedly on September 16th, 2023. He was 59.  Luiz was …

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Irene Wang and Divya Mahajan summarize the fifth iteration of uArch, the undergrad computer architecture mentoring workshop, that happened at ISCA this summer. sigarch.org/fifth-annual-und…

Fifth Annual Undergraduate Mentoring Workshop (uArch 2023)

The 5th annual Undergraduate Architecture Mentoring (uArch) Workshop was co-located with the International Symposium of Computer Architecture (ISCA) 2023, hosted in Orlando, Florida. As with the pr…

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The saga continues surrounding embodied carbon and its utility as an architectural design market: it’s a rebuttal to the rebuttal. sigarch.org/embodied-carbon-…

Embodied Carbon (EC) is a Poor Architectural Metric, Round 2

First, what is an architectural metric?  A quantitative measure that can be used to inform computer architecture choices to compare choices such as organization, mechanisms, and implementation [ABB…

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In DNN accelerators, everybody wants to strike a balance between efficiency and flexibility. But what *kinds* of programmability matter? This post aims to map the space. sigarch.org/formalism-of-dnn…

Formalism of DNN Accelerator Flexibility

The Benefit vs Curse of Specialization The pervasiveness of deep neural network (DNN) accelerators and cambrian explosion in AI accelerator chip designs is testament to the value of specialization.…

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SIGMICRO has established two new awards: a dissertation award and an early career (6 years since PhD) award. Nominate someone today! sigarch.org/other-announceme…

Call for Nominations: Inaugural SIGMICRO Early Career and Dissertation Awards

We are excited to announce two new SIGMICRO awards! Please consider nominating outstanding candidates for the inaugural year of these two new awards – the Early Career Award and the Dissertat…

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In response to last week’s blog post, a large group of researchers reaffirms the need to mitigate embodied carbon in silicon manufacturing. sigarch.org/reducing-embodie…

Reducing Embodied Carbon is Important

A recent post raises awareness of the challenges of reducing operational carbon, while also controversially challenging the importance of embodied carbon. We rebut the arguments raised against usin…

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When accounting for the “embodied carbon” that goes into semiconductor manufacturing, it’s critical to account for (1) differences between manufacturers, (2) the surprisingly low cost to decarbonize manufacturing, and (3) tricky methodological issues. sigarch.org/why-embodied-car…

Why Embodied Carbon is a poor Architecture Design metric, and Operational Carbon remains an...

I. Embodied Carbon Recently, embodied carbon, defined as the Scope 3 GHG emissions that arise from the manufacturing processes that lead to computing electronics, has become popular as an architect…

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To deal with hardware faults, researchers have to (1) understand the root cause, such as high-energy particles, and (2) protect the relevant parts of the processor. sigarch.org/emerging-fault-m…

Emerging Fault Modes: Challenges and Research Opportunities

Overview Reliability is essential for computing. However, as technology nodes have scaled, there have been several fundamental physical challenges to overcome to provide the abstraction of reliabil…

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José F. Martínez & Lizy K. John give an overview of the 25-year retrospective they edited covering the second half of ISCA’s history so far. sigarch.org/isca50-retrospec…

ISCA@50 Retrospective: 1996-2020

Dear members of the SIGARCH and TCCA communities, In 1998, in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of ISCA, Guri Sohi put together a volume of selected papers and author retrospectives from 1973 t…

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Check out the full list of winners for the awards announced at #isca50 the other week. sigarch.org/other-announceme…

Congratulating ISCA 2023 awards recipients

SIGARCH and TCCA would like to congratulate the recipients of the awards and honors announced at the ISCA 2023 awards banquet. 

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A new volume highlights memorable papers from ISCA’s second 25 years, 1996–2020. Browse the new author retrospectives that put them into historical context. #isca50 sites.coecis.cornell.edu/isc…
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Listen to the latest episode of the Computer Architecture Podcast, which celebrates the 50th anniversary of SIGARCH with three of its chairs, past and incoming: Dave Patterson, Norm Jouppi, and @nenrightjerger. sigarch.org/other-announceme…

Episode 12 of Computer Architecture Podcast: 50th Anniversary of SIGARCH, Special Episode with Dr....

Computer Architecture Podcast: a series of conversations on cutting-edge work in computer architecture and the remarkable people behind it. This is a special episode to commemorate the 50th anniver…

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Babak Falsafi remembered Steve Reinhardt’s talk on “Tempest and Typhoon” in ISCA 1998. Steve compared Typhoon to FLASH and Alewife among several axes, the most important one being whether the project had official T-shirts. #isca50 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/28593…
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