Computer Architecture Today

Informing the broad computing community about current activities, advances and future directions in computer architecture.
Why Embodied Carbon is a poor Architecture Design metric, and Operational Carbon remains an important Problem

Why Embodied Carbon is a poor Architecture Design metric, and Operational Carbon remains an important Problem

I. Embodied Carbon Recently, embodied carbon, defined as the Scope 3 GHG emissions that arise from the manufacturing processes that lead to computing electronics, has become popular as an architectural metric for sustainability.  If you are considering it or using it,...

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ISCA@50 Retrospective: 1996-2020

ISCA@50 Retrospective: 1996-2020

Dear members of the SIGARCH and TCCA communities, In 1998, in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of ISCA, Guri Sohi put together a volume of selected papers and author retrospectives from 1973 through 1995 (ISCA-1 through ISCA-22) with help from several program...

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