It is with great regret that I pass on the news that our colleague and friend Nathan Binkert is no longer with us.  Nate passed away unexpectedly on September 21st after collapsing at the...

In this blog article we touch the subject of architectural evaluation methodology. We took the effort to interview some experts and collect opinions from experts on this subject. While...

In the process of writing a short introduction to RISC-V, we compared RISC-V vector code to SIMD. We were struck by the insidiousness of the SIMD instruction extensions of ARM, MIPS, and...

The efficiency of Operating Systems (OSes) has always been in the spotlight of systems researchers, ever since the seminal Dijkstra's THE multiprogramming system in early 60s. But the...

Increasing diversity in the broad field of computing is an ongoing challenge.  Although many people are aware of the "google memo", I don't think many SIGARCH (and adjacent SIG) members...