ACM SIGMICRO

The ACM Special Interest Group on Microarchitecture

SIGMICRO is a community of researchers and practitioners interested broadly in the area of computer microarchitecture, including features permitting instruction-level parallelism and their related implications on compiler design. Become a member today!

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Upcoming Events

MICRO 2025
Call for Papers

Submit papers to the next MICRO conference, which will be held in Seoul!

  • Abstracts due April 4, 2025
  • Full papers due April 11, 2025
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MICRO 2024
Call for Papers

Submit papers to the next MICRO conference, which will be held in Austin!

  • Abstracts due April 11, 2024
  • Full papers due April 18, 2024
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Recent News

Congratulations to three recent award winners for significant contributions to the SIGMICRO community / excellent thesis research / outstanding early career research!

  • Dimitris Gizopoulos, 2024 SIGMICRO Distinguished Service Award
    Dimitris is being recognized for his contributions to the SIGMICRO community, especially for the organization of MICRO during the pandemic period (2020 and 2021), two of the most pivotal years in the long history of the conference.
  • Poulami Das, 2024 SIGMICRO Dissertation Award
    Poulami is being recognized for developing software and architecture techniques to increase the throughput and reliability of emerging quantum computers.
  • Saeed Rashidi, 2024 SIGMICRO Dissertation Award
    Saeed is being recognized for developing the ASTRA-sim simulation framework for identifying and addressing communication challenges in next generation distributed AI systems at scale.
  • Nicolai Alexander Oswald, 2024 SIGMICRO Dissertation Award (Honorable Mention)
    Nicolai is being recognized for enabling faster, more robust design of cache coherence protocols for more systems through protocol design automation.
  • Suvinay Subramanian, 2024 SIGMICRO Early Career Award

The MICRO Test of Time (ToT) award recognizes the most influential papers published in prior sessions of the International Symposium on Microarchitecture®. One winner was selected for 2023:

  • Orion: A Power-Performance Simulator for Interconnection Networks (MICRO 2003)
    Hang-Sheng Wang, Xinping Zhu, Li-Shiuan Peh, Sharad Malik

Congratulations to the winners! You can read brief citations about the impact and significance of their paper.

Congratulations to three recent award winners for significant contributions to the SIGMICRO community / excellent thesis research / outstanding early career research!

  • Yan Solihin, 2023 SIGMICRO Distinguished Service Award
    Yan is being recognized for his enduring and broad contributions including his work as NSF Program Director, his leadership of the SIGMICRO History Project, co-founding SEED, and his many stints as general and program chair of leading conferences.
  • Kazem Taram, 2023 SIGMICRO Dissertation Award
    Kazem is being recognized for his dissertation which deepens our understanding of how microarchitectural optimizations can leak information and proposes secure yet high-performance architectures that preserve those optimizations, easing the inherent security-performance tension.
  • Jian Huang, 2023 SIGMICRO Early Career Award
    Jian is being recognized for his pioneering contributions to persistent memory, storage architectures and systems.
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