What's Computer Architecture?

Computer Architecture is the science and art of selecting and interconnecting hardware components to create computers that meet functional, performance and cost goals. Computer architecture is not about using computers to design buildings.

Fred Brooks Video On Computer Architecture [ISCA 2004]

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• Updates 2005.03:

  Call for papers:

  DaMoN 2005 ICCD 2005 CODES-ISSS CASES 2005 ANCS 2005 ACSAC05 ASAP2005 HPCA 12th

  Tools:

  GEMS - General Execution-driven Multiprocessor Simulator (GEMS), based on Simics

• Updates 2005.02:

  Call for participation:

  ISPASS 2005

  Call for papers:

  ISCA Tutorials and Workshops NEW - ACM TACO's Winter Call For Papers TACS-2

  Tools:

  NPCryptBench - A Cryptographic Benchmark Suite for Network Processors

• Updates 2005.01:

  New RSS Feed!

  Call for participation:

  HPCA-11

  Call for papers:

  NANOARCH '05 WARFP'05 MoBS

  Commercial:

  Maxim Integrated Products

  Tools:

  PinPoints SESC

• Updates 2004.12:

  New Chinese Mirror!

  Call for papers:

  Euro-Par (CFP) UCAS-1 PACT2005 ASAP2005

  HPCA program

  Groups:

  Boston University -- Computer Architecture and Automated Design Lab ATC Group (Universidad de Cantabria) Microarchitecture Research Institute at Univ. Rhode Island TU Delft Computer Engineering

  Organizations:

  Women in Computer Architecture

  Tools:

  PDIWeb SHARPE

• Updates 2004.11:

  Call for papers:

  SAMOS V ICS 2005 CAMP05

  Groups:

  Draco Architecture Group at Colorado

  Tools:

  EPIC Explorer GraalBench

• Updates 2004.10:

  Call for papers:

  INTERACT-9 CAECW-8 CAC '05 3rd CGO CF '05

  Tools:

  NETCARE (new URL)

• Updates 2004.09:

  Call for papers:

  ART-C HPPAC PACS PPHEC

  Tutorial:

  Pin 2.0 Tutorial at ASPLOS

  Tools:

  Pin 2.0 (New EM64T Release)

• Updates 2004.08:

  Call for papers:

  IPDPS 2005 ISPASS 2005 IEEE Micro RAW 2005

  Tools:

  Pin Dynamic Instrumentation Tool 2.0

  Groups:

  CSRL of University of North Texas

• Updates 2004.07:

  Call for participation:

  CODES+ISSS

  Call for papers:

  BEACON-1 WASSA WWC-7 WILD04 OASIS-2004 CBP1 Track on Embedded Systems at ACM SAC 2005 HPCA-11 Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals MEDEA-2004

  Tools:

  NePSim

• Updates 2004.06:

  Call for papers:

  ISCA 2005 HPCA 11 Industrial CFP ARITH-17 WASP 2004

  Tools:

  IATO (IA64 Toolkit)

  Misc:

  A cartoon by Chad Darbyshire, from the New Yorker Magzine

• Updates 2004.05:

  Call for papers:

  HPCA11 VPW2

  Tools:

  Microbenchmarks for Determining Branch Predictor Organization

• Updates 2004.04:

  Call for papers:

  CICINDI 2004 WCED 2004

  Tools:

  SBC Traces: SPEC CPU2000 Address Traces

  Groups:

  Parallel Processor Design and FPGA Team University of Edinburgh Compiler and Architecture Design Group

• Updates 2004.03:

  Call for papers:

  PACT 2004 WMPI IEEE Computer ICDCIT 2004 16th SBAC-PAD ICCD 2004

  Tools:

  SID LSE

• Updates 2004.02:

  Call for papers:

  SPAA 2004 PATMOS 2004 IEEE Micro TACS CASES 2004

  People:

  Chung-Ho Chen Ben Juurlink Charles Moore Jonathan Simonson

• Updates 2004.01:

  Call for papers:

  Euro-Par 2004 BARC2004 MICRO-37 ANCHOR 2004 FoQuS

  Tools:

  WaveScalar Development Toolkit

  People:

  Chris Dwyer Mazen Kharbutli Mazin Yousif

• Updates 2003.12:

  Call for papers:

  IEEE MICRO July IEEE MICRO Sept. ACSAC'2004 ISICT 04

  Groups:

  Srijan

  People:

  Daniel Ortiz-Arroyo Anshul Kumar M. Balakrishnan Anup|Gangwar Basant K. Dwivedi

• Updates 2003.11:

  Call for papers:

  PPHEC MSP 2004 ICPS 2004 IJCAT ODES-2

  Tools:

  SimCore

  People:

  Manjunath Kudlur Dongsoo Kang Kuan-Ching Li Pierre Michaud

• Updates 2003.10:

  Call for papers:

  WASP 2003 LCTES 2004 ICS 2004 SAN-3 WEPA-1 IPDSP 2004 CAC 2004 ISPASS 2004 IEEE MICRO special issue NP3

  Tools:

  RAVEN pfmon Vampir Quantify

  People:

  Tarek El-Ghazawi Milos Prvulovic Scott Mahlke Dinesh Chander Suresh Sanjeev Kumar Chen Liu

  Groups:

  High Performance Computing group at George Washington University Compilers Creating Custom Processors

• Updates 2003.09:

  Call for papers:

  DSN 2004 CGO 2004 INTERACT-8 CAECW 2004 IEEE Transactions on Computers - Special Issue on Computer Arithmetic ISPASS 2004

  People:

  Charles Lefurgy Wei-Chung Hsu

  Groups:

  IBM, Austin Research Lab

• Updates 2003.08:

  Added "What's Computer Architecture?" -- An informal description.

  Call for papers:

  WWC-6 ARCS '04 PACT 2003 WIP Computing Frontiers 2004 HiPC 2003

  People:

  Alex Dean Eun-Gu Jung Enrique V. Carrera Banit Agrawal Eun Jung Kim Ki Hwan Yum Assaf Schuster

  Groups:

  NC State

  Misc:

  NSF Panel on the Future of Computer Architecture

• Updates 2003.07:

  HOT Chips 15 Program

  Call for papers:

  ASYNC 2004

  People:

  Xiaobin Li, Aart J.C. Bik

  Groups:

  University of Pennsylvania Architecture and Compilers Group

  Tools:

  SMARTSim, HotSpot thermal model, HotLeakage, MRRL

• Updates 2003.06:

  Call for papers:

  ISCA 2004, HPCA-10, Track on Embedded Systems - SAC 2004, SBAC-PAD 2003

  People:

  Jaume Abella, Chris Colohan, Will Cohen

  Tools:

  OProfile

• Updates 2003.05:

  Call for papers:

  ICS'03 Workshop; PACT'03 Workshops

  People:

  Gautham Dorai; Luis Pinuel; Manuel Prieto; Daniel Chaver; Carlos Garcia; John Glossner; Panit Watcharawitch

  Tools:

  WinMIPS64

  Groups:

  RSIM, GRACE, 4-PEAKS;

  Online Journals:

  ACM TACO

• Updates 2003.04:

  Call for papers:

  CODES-ISSSS

  Misc:

  ISCA Hall of Fame

• Updates 2003.03:

  Call for papers:

  IEEE Computer, Special Issue; CASES 2003; ICPP 2003

  People:

  Louis G Johnson; Yan Sholihin; Milos Prvulovic; Subba Palacharla

• Updates 2003.02:

  Call for papers:

  IEEE Micro, Special Issue; MICRO 36; PDPTA 03 Technique Session; ICCD 03; FPL 03; RAW 03; PATMOS 03; ESA 03 Technique Session

  Tools:

  SMPCache

  People:

  Sriram Vajapeyam; Alaa Alameldeen; John Seng; Enric Gibert; Leonel Sousa

  2003 Wilkes Award Call

• Updates 2003.01:

  New Maintainer :-)

  Call for papers:

  IEEE Micro; PACT'03; ISLPED'03; CGO Workshops

  Tools:

  ARCHTEST; MOB; Shade's new web site; RaVi; SimPoint

  People:

  Rakesh Kumar; Jung-Hoon Lee; Diana Marculescu; Kuan-Ching Li; Juan L. Aragon; Mazen Saghir; Antonio Canas

  Groups & Projects:

  SimPoint Project at UCSD; University of Granada, Spain, Dept. of Computer Architecture and Technology (ATC)

  Misc:

  Computer Archtecture Links Page (English and Spanish)

  2002 Awards updated

• Bochs - Open-source IA-32 Full System Emulator Project
• Valgrind - an open-source memory debugger and cache/memory profiler for x86-GNU/Linux
• ACSAC 2003 - Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference
• ASAP 2003 - IEEE 14th International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors
• ML-RSIM Execution-driven System Simulator - Detailed execution-driven simulator running a Unix-compatible operating system
• FCRC 2003 - Federated Computing Research Conference
  • ISCA 2003 - 30th International Symposium on Computer Architecture
  • SIGMETRICS 2003 - The International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems
  • PLDI 2002 - ACM SIGPLAN Programming Language Design and Implementation
  • LCTES 2003 - ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Languages, Compilers and Tools for Embedded Systems
  • SPAA 2003 - Fifteenth ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures
  • PPoPP 2003 - ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming
• ICS 2003 - 17th International Conference on Supercomputing
• GLSVLSI 2003 - 13th Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI
• ATL CSIM - General purpose high level computer architecture simulator, C-based with graphics
• Call for papers: IEEE Computer Magazine Special Issue on Hardware/Software Co-Design
• CAC 2003 - Workshop on Communication Architecture for Clusters (in conjunction with The International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
• ASPLOS-X - advance program is available; registration is now open
• MICRO 2002 workshops:
  • EPIC-2 - 2nd Workshop on EPIC Architectures and Compiler Technology
  • MSP-4 - 4th Workshop on Media and Stream Processors
  • MTEAC-6 - 6th Workshop on Multi-threaded Execution, Architecture and Compilation
  • WASP-1 - 1st Workshop on Application Specific Processors
• CGO 2002 - First Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization
• ISPASS 2003 - 2003 IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software
• WWC 2002 - The 5th Annual IEEE Workshop on Workload Characterization (WWC-5)
• EASY 2002 - Second Workshop on Evaluating and Architecting System dependabilitY
• ISLPED 2002 - The International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design
• PACT 2002 - The 2002 International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques
  • COLP 2002 - Workshop on Compilers and Operating Systems for Low Power
  • MEDEA 2002 - Workshop On Chip Multiprocessors: Processor Architecture and Memory Hierarchy Related Issues
  • SPDSEC 2002 - Workshop on Hardware/Software Support for Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing
  • WBT 2002 - 4th Workshop on Binary Translation
• Guidelines for SIGARCH Sponsored Conferences
• HPCA 2003 - 9th Annual Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture
  • SAN-2 - Novel Uses of System Area Networks
  • INTERACT-7 - The 7th Annual Workshop on Interaction between Compilers and Computer Architectures
  • Workshop on Network Processors