ACM SIGARCH is the
Association for Computing Machinery
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's
Special Interest Group on
computer architecture
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, a community of
computer professionals and students from academia and industry involved in research and professional practice related to computer architecture and design. The organization sponsors many prestigious international conferences in this area, including the
International Symposium on Computer Architecture
The International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) is an annual academic conference on computer architecture, generally viewed as the top-tier in the field. Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer Archi ...
(ISCA), recognized as the top conference in this area since 1975. Together with
IEEE Computer Society
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's Technical Committee on Computer Architecture (TCCA), it is one of the two main professional organizations for people working in computer architecture.
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. Flynn was also the founding chairman of
IEEE Computer Society
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's TCCA and encouraged from the beginning, joint cooperation between the two groups. Many of the joint symposiums and conferences are the leading events in the field.
Journal
''ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News'' is a newsletter, started in January 1972, that publishes refereed articles about
computer hardware and its interactions with
compiler
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s and
operating system
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Time-sharing operating systems scheduler (computing), schedule tasks for ef ...
s.
Conferences
ACM SIGARCH sponsors many top international conferences related to computer architecture.
* ASPLOS: ACM
* 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
The International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) is an annual academic conference on computer architecture, generally viewed as the top-tier in the field. Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer Archi ...
* 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
SenSys, the ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, is an annual academic conference in the area of embedded networked sensors.
About SenSys
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* 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
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)
*
ISCA Influential Paper Award (with IEEE-CS TCCA)
*
Alan D. Berenbaum Distinguished Service Award
* ASPLOS Influential Paper Award
See also
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Computer engineering
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Computer science
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Computing
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References
External links
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