by David Patterson on Jul 15, 2020 | Tags: Academia, ACM SIGARCH, Conference, Industry, ISCA, Policy, Reviewing
Problem: The Disappearance of Product Papers from ISCA Industry research groups in computer architecture (like at IBM, Intel, and NVIDIA) have as much support for architectural exploration and publication as academic groups, but product groups certainly don’t. Few...
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by José F. Martínez on Jun 29, 2020 | Tags: Conference, ISCA, Virtual Meetings
On March 26, ISCA’20 general co-chair José Duato and I announced that, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the conference would switch from an in-person event in Valencia (Spain) to a purely virtual one. An intense two-month pivot followed, whose outcome was ISCA’s...
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by Christina Delimitrou on Jun 24, 2020 | Tags: Accelerators, Cloud computing, Datacenters, ISCA
If you were one of the 1700 attendees of the first virtual ISCA last week, you hopefully got a chance to call in to one or more of this year’s mini-panels. Spread across 3 days and many timezones, ISCA hosted 12 mini-panels in total, which ranged in topics from...
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by Steve Swanson on Dec 24, 2019 | Tags: Humor, ISCA
’Twas the night before ISCA, when all through the lab every grad student working, no sleep had they had. I’d written the intro with obsessive care, In hopes that good data soon would be there. The graphs were each nestled snug in their sections, Set to overpower...
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by Omer Anjum, Wen-Mei Hwu, Jinjun Xiong on Aug 2, 2019 | Tags: Conference, ISCA, publication trends
Recently, we conducted a detailed study of some notable publication trends at ISCA. We used the abstracts for all the papers published at ISCA from 1973, when it was inaugurated, to 2018. This blog summarizes the main findings of the detailed article which can be...
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