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Really cool talk from 39C3, presenting the implementation of a pipelined CPU, CLI/OS and FS in Factorio!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcQYEAr0Yos
Might be an interesting way to teach comparch and systems fundamentals.
Let's start the new year with appreciation and nominate our excellent colleagues for award 🏅recognition! We also have a couple of other calls for CAL EIC and CoDAIM 2026:
ACM SIGARCH/IEEE CS TCCA Outstanding Dissertation Award
https://www.sigarch.org/benefit/awards/acm-sigarch-ieee-cs-tcca-outstanding-dissertation-award/
ACM SIGARCH Alan D. Berenbaum Distinguished Service Award
https://www.sigarch.org/benefit/awards/acm-sigarch-distinguished-service-award/
ACM SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes Award
https://www.sigarch.org/benefit/awards/acm-sigarch-maurice-wilkes-award/
Call for 2027 Editor-in-Chief, IEEE CAL (Computer Architecture Letters)
https://www.sigarch.org/other-announcements/call-for-2027-editor-in-chief-ieee-cal-computer-architecture-letters/
Call for papers: Workshop on Co-Design for Agentic and Multimodal AI (CoDAIM 2026)
Co-located with ASPLOS 2026
https://codaim-asplos.github.io/
The Computing Systems Laboratory (CSLab) of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) will host the 9th Computing Systems Research Day this Wednesday, January 7th, 2026, at the NTUA Zografou campus!
We are thrilled to host Professor Lieven Eeckhout (Ghent University, ACM and IEEE Fellow) as our keynote speaker this year! Professor Eeckhout will speak about sustainable processor design and the environmental impact of computing.
Join us for a day of technical talks and presentations on cutting-edge systems research on:
☁️ Serverless memory elasticity (Orestis Lagkas Nikolos, NTUA)
⚡ Accelerator-centric computing (Gerasimos Gerogiannis, UIUC)
🔧 eBPF page cache optimization (Yannis Zarkadas, Google)
🤖 DL inference sparsity (Georgios Goumas, NTUA)
📅 Date: Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026
📍 Venue: Ceremonial Hall, Central Administration Building, NTUA Zografou Campus
⏰ Start Time: 11:45 AM
Full program and details at http://www.cslab.ece.ntua.gr/
Two weeks ago I gave a talk in #nixcon 2025 on the infrastructure and tooling used to build #nixos. You can view the talk here https://media.ccc.de/v/nixcon2025-56379-how-nixos-is-built-from
Huge thank you to the AV team for the stellar video and audio quality!
Linux kernel quiz: Why is this program so slow and takes around 50ms to run?
What line do you have to add to make it run in ~3ms instead without interfering with what this program does?
SIGARCH
Manos Pitsidianakis
Erethon
Jann Hornuser@debian12:~/test$ cat > slow.c
#include <pthread.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <err.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
static void open_sockets(void) {
for (int i=0; i<256; i++) {
int sock = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
if (sock == -1)
err(1, "socket");
}
}
static void *thread_fn(void *dummy) {
open_sockets();
return NULL;
}
int main(void) {
pthread_t thread;
if (pthread_create(&thread, NULL, thread_fn, NULL))
errx(1, "pthread_create");
open_sockets();
if (pthread_join(thread, NULL))
errx(1, "pthread_join");
return 0;
}
user@debian12:~/test$ gcc -O2 -o slow slow.c -Wall
user@debian12:~/test$ time ./slow
real 0m0.041s
user 0m0.003s
sys 0m0.000s
user@debian12:~/test$ time ./slow
real 0m0.053s
user 0m0.003s
sys 0m0.000s
user@debian12:~/test$
Very interesting article by @vijay for the ACM SIGOPS / @sigarch blogs regarding the role of LLMs in the peer review process!
https://www.sigops.org/2025/the-role-of-llms-in-academic-reviewing/
The past few years have witnessed a staggering acceleration in the capabilities of large language models (LLMs). What began as an intriguing toy for autocomplete has evolved into sophisticated tools capable of summarizing research papers, drafting technical arguments, and even simulating expert‑leve
Paper 📄 calls ☎️ for all y'all 🤠
Call for papers: ASPLOS 2026 summer deadline
https://www.asplos-conference.org/asplos2026/cfp/
Call for papers: 7th International Workshop on Domain Specific System Architecture (DoSSA-7) (In conjunction with MICRO-58)
http://prism.sejong.ac.kr/dossa-7
Call for Papers: Workshop on Education for High-Performance Computing (EduHPC 25) (co-located with SC 2025)
https://ieeetcca.org/2025/07/28/deadline-extension-call-for-paper-eduhpc-colocated-with-sc25/
Save ATC: A petition to SIGOPS to adopt the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC) and retain its steering committee Dear SIGOPS Officers, We, the undersigned members of the systems research community, write to respectfully urge SIGOPS to consider adopting and continuing the USENIX Annual Techn...
Dan Cross