This is the 1st September 2025 digest of SIGARCH Messages.

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Call for Papers: ACM Sigmetrics 2026: Operational Systems Track
https://www.sigmetrics.org/sigmetrics2026/
Submitted by Stefan Schmid (TU Berlin)

ACM Sigmetrics would like to point the community to a new track which may be of interest to some of you.

Operational Systems Track at ACM Sigmetrics 2026: This is a new track that seeks papers describing deployed systems that are in significant use in a real-world setting.

Papers in this track should focus on principled measurement, modeling, and metrics pertaining to the system. Papers in this track need not necessarily present new ideas as judged by the “academic novelty” standard that we traditionally use for research paper submissions.
Good papers could present how known ideas work in practice, how design principles scale (or do not scale) to large production-scale systems, prove (or, disprove) existing assumptions with real-world data, bring out new performance modeling problems from real-world systems to the attention of the research community, etc.
The paper must describe “lessons learned” in the context of prior approaches known in the literature. Accepted papers in this track will be published as a regular paper along with papers in the research track.

More information at https://www.sigmetrics.org/sigmetrics2026/


Call for Papers: CAMS25 – The 3rd Workshop on Computer Architecture Modeling and Simulation
https://sarchlab.org/cams25
Submitted by Enze Xu

3rd Workshop on Computer Architecture Modeling and Simulation (CAMS 2025)
held in conjunction with IEEE/ACM MICRO25.
Seoul, Korea.
October 18/19, 2025

Summary

The goal of the workshop is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas and discuss the latest advances in the field of computer architecture modeling and simulation. The focus on modeling and simulation techniques is of vital importance to the ongoing advancements in microarchitecture, as these methods are essential tools for improving system performance, efficiency, and reliability.

Topics of interest
The workshop will cover various aspects of computer architecture modeling and simulation, including but not limited to:
 * Simulator Development: Advances in design, theory, implementation, and integration of simulators.
 * Performance Modeling: Strategies for prediction, validation, and the impact of architectural features.
 * Power Modeling and Simulation: Methods for power-efficient design and power-performance trade-offs.
 * Tools and Studies Survey: Review and compare existing simulation tools and applications.
 * Scalable Simulation Techniques: Approaches for improving simulation scalability and efficiency.
 * Modeling and Simulation for Unconventional Architectures: Exploration of unique challenges and approaches for emerging and unconventional architectures.
 * Hardware-in-the-loop Simulation: Performance modeling and simulator validation with hardware.
 * Modeling for Machine Learning (Sim4AI): Architectural considerations and models for hardware accelerators.
 * Validation Techniques: Approaches for validating the accuracy of simulation models.
 * Human-centered simulation methods: Analysis, visualization, and monitoring methods.
Submissions
Call for full papers
The workshop invites submissions of original work in the form of full papers (up to 6 pages, reference not included) covering all aspects of computer architecture modeling and simulation. Submissions will be peer-reviewed, and accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings.
Call for Abstracts for Tool Release Talks
The talks will announce new simulators or new releases of existing simulators, highlighting their new features and improvements. We solicit talks from a broader community. Please submit a one-page abstract that includes the simulator, the new version, the new features you wish to present, and the website for your tool (if it exists). The selection will be made based on the relevance to the workshop topics, decided by the workshop chairs.
Important Dates
* Full Paper Submissions: August 11th, 2025 August 25th, 2025 (23:59 AoE)  – Deadline extended
* Full Paper Author Notifications: September 8th, 2025
* Tool Release Talk Submissions: September 15th, 2025 (23:59 AoE)
* Tool Release Talk Author Notifications: September 22nd, 2025
Workshop Chairs
 * Yifan Sun, College of William & Mary (W&M), USA, ysun25@wm.edu
 * Trevor E. Carlson, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore,  tcarlson@comp.nus.edu.sg

Call for Presentations: Arch4Health @ MICRO 2025
https://events.safari.ethz.ch/micro25-arch4health/
Submitted by Nika Mansouri Ghiasi

1st Workshop on Architecture for Health (Arch4Health 2025)
In conjunction MICRO 2025
18th October 2025, Seoul, Korea

A half-day workshop exploring the key computational challenges in health-related applications and the vital role of computer architecture in overcoming them to advance healthcare 

Summary:
Opportunities. Recent biotechnological advances enable high-throughput, low-cost, and accurate biological data generation (e.g., using genome sequencing, multimodal medical imaging, continuous wearable sensing). This wealth of data enables unique opportunities for advancing healthcare. 

Challenges. Despite these opportunities, efficiently analyzing large-scale biological data poses significant challenges for conventional computing systems. These systems often cannot keep up with the high-throughput rate at which data is generated, and they face additional constraints related to energy efficiency, scalability, privacy, and security. High-throughput processing is especially critical in clinical settings, where faster analysis can improve patient outcomes. Therefore, there is a need to design systems to enable high-performance, energy-efficient, private, and secure analysis of biological data.

Architecture for Health. This workshop will focus on identifying key computational challenges in health-related applications and discussing how computer architects can contribute to advancing healthcare by addressing these challenges.

Fostering Diverse and Cross-Disciplinary Discussions. Since cross-disciplinary discussions are crucial for better identifying challenges in real-world health-related applications, we aim to foster open discussions and cooperation between researchers with diverse backgrounds (i.e., from both computer architecture and health sciences communities, industry, and academia).

Call for Presentations:
This workshop consists of talks on the general topic of computing system designs for healthcare applications and new trends and bottlenecks in data-intensive healthcare applications. There are a limited number of slots for talks. If you are interested in delivering a talk on related topics,
please submit your talk’s title and extended abstract via this form: https://forms.gle/ozKpsox1LT2vt9aP7 

Further submission information: https://events.safari.ethz.ch/micro25-arch4health/

Topics of Interest
We invite abstract submissions related to (but not limited to) the following topics:

  • Computational Biology: Genomics, Metagenomics, Gene editing, Drug Design and Discovery, Proteomics, Other Areas in Precision Medicine
  • Neuroscience: Brain-Machine Interfaces, Prosthetics
  • Wearable Systems for Health
  • Medical Robotics: Surgery, Haptics
  • Mental Health
  • Medical Imaging: Brain scans, Radiology, Single-Cell Analysis
  • Agent-Based Simulations
  • Medical Privacy
  • Bio-Sensors

Important Dates

  • Extended Abstract Submission Deadline: 12 September 2025
  • Notification: 21 September 2025
  • Workshop Date: 18th (Saturday) October 2025


Organizers:
Nika Mansouri Ghiasi, ETH Zurich
Konstantina Koliogeorgi, ETH Zurich
Onur Mutlu, ETH Zurich

 

 

 


Call for Presentations: Job Candidate Showcase @ MICRO 2025
https://sites.google.com/bu.edu/micro-showcase2025
Submitted by Sabrina Neuman

We are inviting submissions to the MICRO 2025 Job Candidate Showcase, a conference session for PhD students to present their dissertation research and gain visibility within the computer architecture community as they prepare for the job market. The presentation format will be a lightning talk and poster session. The showcase welcomes presentations on any topic in computer architecture (e.g., see MICRO call for papers).

Eligibility:
Students should have published in the community’s rigorously peer-reviewed conferences or journals. Students should be within 1-2 years, before or after, of dissertation completion. Students closer to graduation will be given priority as other students can attend a future forum with more mature results. Interested participants will submit (a) two-page research statement; (b) published or accepted first-author paper from ASPLOS, HPCA, ISCA, or MICRO; and (c) curriculum vitae.

Important Dates:
Submissions deadline: August 22, 2025
Author notification: September 5, 2025

Details and Submission Webpage:
https://sites.google.com/bu.edu/micro-showcase2025


Call for Workshops/Tutorials: ASPLOS 2026
https://www.asplos-conference.org/call-for-workshops-and-tutorials/
Submitted by Hyeran Jeon & ,

We solicit workshop and tutorial proposals for ASPLOS 2026 in Pittsburgh, PA. Workshops and tutorials will be held on March 22 (Sunday) and March 23 (Monday) 2026.

Workshops
We encourage proposals in the interplay between programming languages, computer architecture, systems, and user interfaces to deal with challenges such as power, performance, resilience, and programmer productivity in emerging areas including but not limited to datacenter/cloud computing, systems based on non-volatile memory technologies, large-scale data analysis, smart infrastructure, extreme-scale computing, systems for AI/ML, system security, and large language model (LLM) applications.

Tutorials
We solicit proposals for both half and full-day tutorials on any topic that is relevant to the ASPLOS audience. In previous years, tutorials seeking to achieve either of the following goals have been particularly successful:

  • Describe an important piece of research infrastructure.
  • Educate the community on an emerging topic.


Important Dates
Workshops & Tutorials Submission Deadline: November 3rd, 2025 (Monday)
Notification: November 21st, 2025 (Friday)

Submission
The submission site is coming soon!

Feel free to reach out to ASPLOS 2026 workshop/tutorial chairs Adwait Jog and Ashutosh Pattnaik at wt.asplos2026@gmail.com

 


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- Akanksha Jain
SIGARCH Content Editor

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