ACM SIG FACT SHEET

ACM/SIGARCH

The ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture

SIGARCH serves a unique community of computer professionals working on the forefront of computer design in both industry and academia. It is ACM's primary forum for interchange of ideas about tomorrow's hardware and its interactions with compilers and operating systems.

URL:http://www.acm.org/sigarch/

Mission Statement

The mission of the Group's specialty is the architecture of computer systems, including all aspects of their organization, structure, design, and engineering. The organization shall promote the interest of professionals by: 1) affording opportunity for discussion of problems of common interest. 2) encouraging presentation of papers of special interest to this group at national and Regional Meetings of the ACM and at other special meetings organized by this group. 3) Providing guidance to the ACM Council matters of importance of the group, and 4 ) Publishing a bulletin containing information of interest to the group.

Demographics

Special interest areas include: physical structure of computer systems, organization of processors (superscalar, multithreaded), memory hierarchies, disks and I/O organizations, control and sequencing (dynamic and static scheduling, speculative execution), shared-memory multiprocessors, multicomputers, distributed shared memory systems.

Awards

Eckert Mauchley Award
Administered jointly by ACM and IEEE Computer Society.

Maurice Wilkes Award
Awarded at ISCA; prize of $2500 to winner, who is invited to ISCA to receive the award. http://www.acm.org/sigarch/wilkes.html

Distinguished Service Award
Awarded at ISCA; prize of $1000 and invited to ISCA to receive the award. http://www.acm.org/sigarch/dsa/dsa.html

Scholarships/Grants

Student Traval Grants to ISCA & ASPLOS

Officers

Doug Burger SIG Chair
+1-512-471-9795 dburger@cs.utexas.edu chair_SIGARCH@acm.org

David A. Wood SIG Vice Chair
+1-608-263-7463 david@cs.utexas.edu vc_SIGARCH@acm.org

Kevin Skadron SIG Secretary/Treasurer
+1-434-982-2042 skadron@cs.virginia.edu treasurer_SIGARCH@acm.org

Doug DeGroot SIG Newsletter Editor, Computer Architecture News
degroot@acm.org editors_SIGARCH@acm.org

Nate Binkert NS Information Director
+1-512-471-9795
infodir_SIGARCH@acm.org

Sarita Adve Board of Directors
+1-217-333-8461
sarita@cs.uiuc.edu

Krste Asanovic Board of Directors
+1-510-642-6506
krste@eecs.berkeley.edu

William J. Dally Board of Directors
+1-650-725-8945
billd@csl.stanford.edu

Margaret Martonosi Board of Directors
+1-609-258-1912
mrm@ee.princeton.edu

Norman P. Jouppi Past Chair
+1-650-857-2268
norm.jouppi@hp.com

Fran Spinola SIG Staff Liaison
+1-212-626-0603
spinola@hq.acm.org

Annual Conferences/Workshops

Title:Intl Conf on Arch Support for Prog Lang & Operating Systems
Acronym: ASPLOS Aprox Dates: October Frequency: 24 months

Title:International Conference on Supercomputing
Acronym: ICS Aprox Dates: July Frequency: 12 months

Title:International Symposium on Computer Architecture
Acronym: ISCA Aprox Dates: May/June Frequency: 12 months

Title:SC: Conf. on High Performance Networking and Computing
Acronym: SC Aprox Dates: November Frequency: 12 months

Title:Annual ACM Symposium on Parallel Algorithms & Architectures
Acronym: SPAA Aprox Dates: July Frequency: 12 months

Name of Newsletter

Computer Architecture News Frequency:Quarterly

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ACM/SIG Fact Sheet. Last Update: 9/23/2003 by Rachael Barish

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