{{Short description|ACM's Special Interest Group on computer architecture}} {{Infobox organization |image=ACM_SIGARCH_logo.png |name=Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture (ACM SIGARCH) |founded={{start date and age|1971|8}} |location= |origins= |key_people= |region_served=International |focus=Computer architecture |revenue= |endowment= |owner= |former_name=SICARCH |website={{URL|https://www.sigarch.org/}} }} '''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.<ref>{{cite web|title=SIGARCH|url=https://www.sigarch.org/|website=ACM SIGARCH|publisher=Association for Computing Machinery|accessdate=3 June 2017}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|title=Acceptance rates in my top conferences|url=https://engineering.purdue.edu/~vijay/papers/acceptance.html|website=Purdue Engineering|publisher=Purdue University|accessdate=4 June 2017}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|title=The ACM/IEEE ISCA 2015|url=https://www.ece.cmu.edu/calcm/isca2015/|website=Electrical & Computer Engineering|publisher=Carnegie Mellon University|accessdate=4 June 2017}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{Cite journal|date=January 1972|title=SICARCH Formed|url=http://portalparts.acm.org/650000/641647/fm/frontmatter.pdf|journal=Computer Architecture News|volume=1|pages=1}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Foster|first1=C. C.|title=Computer Architecture|journal=Computer|date=1972|volume=5|issue=2|pages=18–19|doi=10.1109/C-M.1972.216888|issn=0018-9162}}</ref> Flynn was also the founding chairman of IEEE Computer Society's TCCA<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.computer.org/web/awards/eckert-michael-flynn|title=Michael J. Flynn • IEEE Computer Society|website=www.computer.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-06-04}}</ref> and encouraged from the beginning, joint cooperation between the two groups.<ref>{{Cite journal|date=January 1972|title=Chairman's Report|url=http://portalparts.acm.org/650000/641647/fm/frontmatter.pdf|journal=Computer Architecture News|volume=1|pages=2}}</ref> Many of the joint symposiums and conferences are the leading events in the field.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/~bennani/CSRank.html|title=Computer Science Conference Rank|website=lipn.univ-paris13.fr|language=en|access-date=2017-06-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170604065539/http://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/~bennani/CSRank.html|archive-date=2017-06-04|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://portal.core.edu.au/conf-ranks/?search=A*&by=all&source=CORE2018&sort=atitle&page=1|title=CORE Conference Portal: A* conferences}}</ref>
== 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.<ref>{{cite web|title=ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News|url=http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J89|website=ACM Digital Library|publisher=Association for Computing Machinery|accessdate=3 June 2017}}</ref>
== Conferences == ACM SIGARCH sponsors many top international conferences related to computer architecture.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.guide2research.com/topconf/|title=Top Computer Science Conferences|website=www.guide2research.com|language=en-US|access-date=2017-06-04}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.sigarch.org/about-us/sigarch-sponsored-conferences/|title=SIGARCH-sponsored Conferences|date=2017-05-25|work=SIGARCH|access-date=2017-06-04|language=en-US}}</ref> * 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
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== External links == * [https://www.sigarch.org/ SIGARCH] {{Association for Computing Machinery}} {{Authority control}}
Category:Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Groups