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SIGMICRO Status Report to SGB. Kemal Ebcioglu SIGMICRO Chair IBM T.J. Watson Research Center March 19, 2005. SIGMICRO Summary. Number of SIGMICRO conferences has increased from 1 to 5 Successful results Finances have shown healthy improvement
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SIGMICRO Status Report to SGB Kemal Ebcioglu SIGMICRO Chair IBM T.J. Watson Research Center March 19, 2005
SIGMICRO Summary • Number of SIGMICRO conferences has increased from 1 to 5 • Successful results • Finances have shown healthy improvement • Spreading the risk with multiple high quality conferences • New SIGMICRO e-seminar series featuring distinguished speakers • Worldwide audience – brings community together • Opportunity for live technical questions from members • Stable membership around 400 • Election for new officers on track
Conferences • (100%) Computing Frontiers 2004 (CF’04): was launched in Ischia, Italy. April 14 to 16, 2004. • Focused on interdisciplinary innovation in computer architecture • Encouraging new idea development – outside of mainstream conferences • Excellent financial results • (50%) International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-37), December 4 to 8, 2004 in Portland, Oregon • SIGMICRO’s flagship conference for 37 years • Again featured author rebuttals in review process • (45%) Annual International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO 2004), March 21 to 24, 2004 in Palo Alto, California. • Excellent financial results • (33%) International Conference on Compilers, Architecture and Synthesis on Embedded Systems (CASES 2004), September 23 to 25, 2004, in Washington D.C. • (100%) Symposium on Application Specific Processors (SASP) -- new • April 2006, San Diego • Growing out of Workshop on Application Specific Processors, associated with MICRO conference
SIGMICRO online newsletter e-Seminar series • The SIGMICRO newsletter has been restarted in an online form • with Erik Altman (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center) as the editor. • The newsletter is organizing live e-seminars (telecon+softcopy slides) that the SIGMICRO community can listen in to, around the world • Audience can ask live technical questions to the speaker. • Slides+recorded audio later available on web site • Brings community together • Distinguished speakers in the e-seminar series, including: • Guri Sohi • Wen-Mei Hwu • Mateo Valero • John Shen (coming up)
SIGMICRO’s goals/challenges • Making quality improvements to the Annual International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), the flagship conference of SIGMICRO • Adding new high quality conferences to SIGMICRO's portfolio • Becoming a Web resource, for teaching and research fields related to microarchitecture • Establishing new student awards, to foster interest in leading edge microarchitecture research • Providing computing research resources to microarchitecture researchers worldwide, with the help of the industry.