ACM SIGARCH explained

Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture (ACM SIGARCH)
Area Served:	International
Focus:	Computer architecture
Former Name:	SICARCH

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]

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

External links

• SIGARCH

Notes and References

1. Web site: SIGARCH. ACM SIGARCH. Association for Computing Machinery. 3 June 2017.
2. Web site: Acceptance rates in my top conferences. Purdue Engineering. Purdue University. 4 June 2017.
3. Web site: The ACM/IEEE ISCA 2015. Electrical & Computer Engineering. Carnegie Mellon University. 4 June 2017.
4. January 1972. SICARCH Formed. Computer Architecture News. 1. 1.
5. Foster. C. C.. Computer Architecture. Computer. 1972. 5. 2. 18–19. 10.1109/C-M.1972.216888. 0018-9162.
6. Web site: Michael J. Flynn • IEEE Computer Society. www.computer.org. en-US. 2017-06-04.
7. January 1972. Chairman's Report. Computer Architecture News. 1. 2.
8. Web site: Computer Science Conference Rank. lipn.univ-paris13.fr. en. 2017-06-04. https://web.archive.org/web/20170604065539/http://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/~bennani/CSRank.html. 2017-06-04. dead.
9. Web site: CORE Conference Portal: A* conferences.
10. Web site: ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News. ACM Digital Library. Association for Computing Machinery. 3 June 2017.
11. Web site: Top Computer Science Conferences. www.guide2research.com. en-US. 2017-06-04.
12. News: SIGARCH-sponsored Conferences. 2017-05-25. SIGARCH. 2017-06-04. en-US.