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

2025 MICRO Dissertation Award
Call for Nominations

Award that recognizes excellent thesis research by doctoral candidates in the field of computer microarchitecture.

  • Nominations due August 24 September 10, 2025
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2025 SIGMICRO Early Career Award
Call for Nominations

Annual award that recognizes a young researcher who has made outstanding research contributions to the field of microarchitecture during the early part of their career.

  • Nominations due August 18, 2025
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2025 MICRO Test of Time Award
Call for Nominations

SIGMICRO-sponsored award for papers with a lasting impact from MICRO 2003 to MICRO 2007.

  • Nominations due June 27, 2025
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Recent News

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 2024:

  • Utility-Based Cache Partitioning: A Low Overhead, High Performance, Runtime Mechanism to Partition Shared Caches (MICRO 2006)
    Moinuddin Qureshi, Yale Patt

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!

  • 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
    Suvinay is being recognized for his transformative and high-impact contributions, realizing advanced dataflow techniques tailored for sparse, irregular and memory-intensive AI workloads, and deployed at scale on domain-specific AI accelerators.

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.

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