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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-par…

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-ex…

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-announce…

“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…

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-lu…

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-u…

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

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-d…

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

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-embod…

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-c…

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…

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-retrosp…

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

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/isca50retrospe…

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-announce…

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/10.1145/28…