Computer Architecture Today

Informing the broad computing community about current activities, advances and future directions in computer architecture.
Farewell and Passing the Torch

Farewell and Passing the Torch

The SIGARCH elections have concluded and we welcome the new SIGARCH leadership! The new executive committee (EC) will be: Babak Falsafi (Chair), Natalie Enright Jerger (Vice-chair), Karin Strauss (Treasurer), Sarita Adve (Past chair), Joel Emer, Boris Grot, Martha...

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Embench™: Recruiting for the Long Overdue and Deserved Demise of Dhrystone as a Benchmark for Embedded Computing

Embench™: Recruiting for the Long Overdue and Deserved Demise of Dhrystone as a Benchmark for Embedded Computing

I. Why a New Embedded Benchmark The world will soon be deluged by tens of billions or even hundreds of billions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, but we still don’t have a high quality, widely reported benchmark to fairly evaluate the embedded computers that power...

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ASPLOS 2019 Summary

ASPLOS 2019 Summary

Researchers in programming languages, operating systems, and computer architecture converged on Providence, RI this April for the 24th edition of ASPLOS. This year’s ASPLOS showed the strength of computer systems research in many areas, from cloud computing to...

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