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.

What's New

• Updates 2008.05:

  Call for participation:

  DAC Workshop on Cross--Layer Power and Thermal Management

  Call for papers:

  Special issue of Elsevier Computer Networks journal on "Resource Management in Virtualized Data Centers"

  BAMCOW08 - Barcelona Multi-COre Workshop

  HPCA 2009

  Deadlline Extended for AMAS-BT - Workshop in Architectural/MicroArchitecftural suuport for Binary Translation

• Updates 2008.04:

  Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals:

  MICRO-41 - IEEE International Symposium on Microarchitecture

  Call for posters:

  LCTES 2008 Languages, Compilers and Tools for Embedded Systems Poster Session

  Call for papers:

  HiPEAC-09 - 4th International Conference on High Performance and Embedded Architectures and Compilers

• Updates 2008.03:

  Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals:

  PACT-08 - Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques

  Call for papers:

  ALTA 2008 - Workshop on Architectures and Languages for Throughput Applications

  HiperIO'08 - Second International Workshop on High Performance I/O Systems and Data Intensive Computing

  ASPParC-2008 - Architectural Support for Personal Parallel Computing

  MICRO-41 - IEEE International Symposium on Microarchitecture

  ICCD-08 - IEEE International Conference on Computer Design

  CMP-MSI 2008 - Second Workshop on Chip Multiprocessor Memory Systems and Interconnects

  MoBS 2008 - Fourth Annual Workshop on Modeling, Benchmarking, and Simulation

  HPPC-08 - 2nd Workshop on Highly Parallel Processing on a Chip

  PACT-08 - Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques

  SNAPI-08 - 5th IEEE Int'l Workshop on Storage Network Architecture and Parallel I/Os

  PESPMA - Workshop on Parallel Execution of Sequential Programs on Multi-core Architectures

  WCSA - Workshop on Cell Systems and Applications

  AMAS-BT - Workshop on Architectural and Microarchitectural Support for Binary Translation

• Updates 2008.02:

  Call for posters:

  IEEE Symposium on Low-Power and High-speed Chips (COOL Chips XI)
  

  Call for papers:

  IISWC Call for Benchmark Innovation - IISWC 2008 Benchmark Innovation Session
  

  IISWC-08 - IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization
  

  7th Annual Workshop on Duplicating, Deconstructing, and Debunking (WDDD)
  

  WARP-2008 - The 3rd Workshop on Architectural Research Prototyping

  6th Symposium on Application Specific Processors
  

  Workshop on the Interaction between Operating Systems and Computer Architecture (WIOSCA-2008)
  

• Updates 2008.01:

  Call for participation:

  The Eleventh Workshop on Computer Architecture Evaluation using Commercial Workloads (CAECW-11)
  

  2008 SPEC Benchmark Workshop
  

  HPCA 2008 Call for Participation
  

  Call for papers:

  Scientific Computing Special Issue on HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING ON CELL B.E. PROCESSORS
  

  EC2 - Exploiting Concurrency Efficiently and Correctly

  CATARS'08 - Workshop on Compiler and Architectural Techniques for Application Reliability and Security
  

  IISWC-08 - IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization
  

  ASPLOS 2008 Wild and Crazy Ideas Call for Abstracts
  

  ASPLOS 2008 Call for Posters
  

  SDMAS'08 - Second International Workshop on Scalable Data Management Applications and Systems
  

  Tools:

  Trimaran 4.0 Release - An Infrastructure for Research in Backend Compilation and Architecture Exploration
  

• Updates 2007.12:

  Call for papers:

  IEEE Micro Special Issue - Interaction of Computer Architecture and Operating Systems in the Many-core Era
  

  6th Workshop on Optimizations for DSP and Embedded Systems (ODES-6)
  

  International Symposium on Systems Architectures, MOdeling and Simulation (SAMOS VIII)
  

  Tools:

  Flexus 3.0.0 - SimFlex - Component-based full-system multiprocessor in-order/out-of-order simulation infrastructure; extends Simics; 3.0.0 release is compliant with Simics 3.0.X, adds support for simulating Solaris 10
  

• Updates 2007.11:

  Call for participation:

  Workshop on Design, Architecture, and Simulation of CMPs (dasCMP-07)
  

  RAAW-2: Reconfigurable and Adaptive Architecture Workshop
  

  HiPC-07: International Conference on High Performance Computing
  

  Call for papers:

  International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 08)
  

  Third International Symposium on Industrial Embedded Systems (SIES-08)
  

  SPEED08: 1st Workshop on Storage and I/O Virtualization, Performance, Energy, Evaluation and Dependability
  

  INTERACT-12: Workshop on Interaction between Compilers and Computer Architectures
  

• Updates 2007.10:

  Call for participation:

  2007 International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-40)
  

  Call for papers:

  The Eleventh Workshop on Computer Architecture Evaluation using Commercial Workloads (CAECW-11)
  

  8th Workshop on Communication Architecture for Clusters (CAC 2008)
  

  ISCA 2008 Call for Workshops & Tutorials
  

  ISPASS 2008 Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals
  

  IEEE Micro Special Issue - Interaction of Computer Architecture and Operating Systems in the Many-core Era
  

  Tools:

  Wisconsin's General Execution-driven Multiprocessor Simulator (GEMS) Version 2.0 released
  

• Updates 2007.09:

  Call for papers:

  2008 Workshop on Memory System Performance and Correctness (MSPC-08)
  

  3rd Workshop on Transactional Computing (TRANSACT 2008)
  

  International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES-08)
  

  2nd HiPEAC Workshop on Reconfigurable Computing
  

  Computing Frontiers 08
  

  2nd Workshop on Statistical and Machine learning approaches to ARchitectures and compilaTion (SMART-08)
  

  4th HiPEAC Industrial Workshop on Compilers and Architectures
  

  IEEE Micro Special Issue - Interaction of Computer Architecture and Operating Systems in the Many-core Era
  

  International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS-08)
  

  Micro Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences
  

  Tools:

  Sim-SODA: A Framework for Analyzing Microarchitecture Soft-error Vulnerability
  

  VariaSim: CAD tool for studying impact of process variability on circuits
  

• Updates 2007.08:

  Call for papers:

  Reconfigurable and Adaptive Architecture Workshop (RAAW-2)
  

  Workshop on Design, Architecture, and Simulation of CMPs (dasCMP-07)
  

  HPCA '08 Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals
  

  Call for participation:

  10th International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC-07)
  

  Tools:

  PhysicsBench - A benchmark suite to represent game physics
  

  Noxim Network-on-Chip simulator
  

• Updates 2007.07:

  Call for papers:

  Workshop on General Purpose Processing on GPUs
  

  ISCA 2008
  

  Embedded Systems at ACM SAC 2008
  

  MEDEA Workshop (in conjunction with PACT 2007)
  

• Updates 2007.06:

  Call for papers:

  International Conference on VLSI Design and Embedded System 2008
  

  HPCA 2008
  

  ASP-DAC 2008
  

  Eight International Conference on Control, Virtual Instrumentation and Digital Systems (CICINDI-07)
  

  1st Computer Security Architecture Workshop (CSAW-07)
  

  Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop (RAW-08)
  

  Misc:

  Video available for Workshop on Computer Architecture Research Directions (CARD) panels
  

• Updates 2007.05:

  Call for participation:

  Workshop on the Interaction between Operating Systems and Computer Architecture (WIOSCA - 2007)
  

  Call for papers:

  Workshop on Application Specific Processors (WASP 2007)
  

• Updates 2007.04:

  Call for participation:

  Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT-07)
  

  Call for papers:

  2nd Workshop on Embedded Systems Security (WESS-07)
  

  VEE 2008 - ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments
  

  2nd International Workshop on Advanced Low Power Systems
  

  The 4th International Workshop on Storage Network Architecture and Parallel I/Os
  

  HPCA 2008
  

  PACT-07 - The 16th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques
  

  SBAC-PAD 2007 - 19th International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing
  

  CASES'2007 - Int. Conf. on Compilers, Architecture and Synthesis for Embedded Systems
  

  Tools:

  EduMIPS64 - MIPS64 ISA simulator written in Java/Swing
  

  SPEC CPU2000/CPU2006 Memory Characterization - Full run memory characterization of SPEC workloads
  

  UNIted SIMulation - Structural simulation
  

  MiDataSets for MiBench
  

• Updates 2007.03:

  Call for participation:

  IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS-2007)
  

  Call for papers:

  Workshop on Architectural Support for Gigascale Integration (ASGI-07)
  

  25th International IEEE Conference on Computer Design (ICCD-07) - Updated Submission deadline - May 21, 2007
  

  Sixth Annual Workshop on Duplicating, Deconstructing, and Debunking (WDDD-07)
  

  Workshop on Unique Chips and Systems (UCAS-3) Deadline extended to March 16
  

  COOL Chips X - IEEE Symposium on Low-Power and High-Speed Chips
  

  Twelfth Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference (ACSAC-07)
  

  Third Annual Workshop on Modeling, Benchmarking, and Simulation (MoBS-3)
  

  Call for proposals:

  Call for Proposals - IISWC 2007 Workshops & Tutorials
  

  Misc:

  Video available for Workshop on Computer Architecture Research Directions (CARD) panels
  

• Updates 2007.02:

  Call for benchmarks:

  IISWC 2007 Benchmark session
  

  Call for papers:

  ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (ACM TACO-07)
  

  IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC-07)
  

  20th International Conference for High-Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC-07)
  

  Workshop on the Interaction between Operating Systems and Computer Architecture (WIOSCA - 2007)
  

  Call for participation:

  Third International Summer School on Advanced Computer Architecture and Compilation for Embedded Systems (ACACES 2007 Summer School)
  

  Tools:

  MIPS Assembler and Runtime Simulator (MARS)
  

  Misc:

  Free HPCA Proceedings - Respond by March 1
  

• Updates 2007.01:

  Call for participation:

  CAECW-10 held with HPCA-13: Workshop on Computer Architecture Evaluation using Commercial Workloads
  

  HiPEAC 2007 Conference, Workshops and Tutorials
  

  Call for papers:

  Workshop on Unique Chips and Systems (UCAS-3)
  

  International Workshop on Scalable Management Applications and Systems
  

  IEEE International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP-07)
  

  7th workshop on Worst-Case Execution Time (WCET) Analysis
  

  Fifth annual Austin Conference on Energy-Efficient Design (ACEED-07)
  

  2007 International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS-07)
  

  Workshop on Computer Architecture Research Directions (CARD-07)
  

  Tools:

  WEB-MHE: Web Memory Hierarchy Learning and Research Environment
  

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  Designed by Luke Yen, Min Xu, Milo Martin, Doug Burger, and Mark Hill
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  Computer Sciences Department
  University of Wisconsin-Madison
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