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We've got a grab 🫳 bag 🛍️ of opportunities for you today! Particularly if you’re a student and would like to be mentored or do some mentoring 🤝

Invitation to join the Comp Arch Long-term Mentorship Program (CALM)
Available until March 31st!
https://www.sigarch.org/other-announcements/invitation-to-join-the-comp-arch-long-term-mentorship-program-calm/

Fifth Workshop on Open-Source Computer Architecture Research (OSCAR) 2026
Co-located with ISCA 2026 in Raleigh, NC, USA
https://oscar-workshop.github.io/

PACT 2026 — The International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques
Call for workshops and tutorials
https://www.sigarch.org/call-contributions/pact-2026-2/

International Symposium on Highly Efficient Accelerators and Reconfigurable Technologies (HEART 2026)
Call for contributions
https://www.sigarch.org/call-contributions/heart-2026/

Invitation to join the Comp Arch Long-term Mentorship Program (CALM)

The CALM program aims to build long-term mentoring relationships between junior and senior researchers in our community. This program offers a unique opportunity for mentors to provide guidance and…

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Check out our latest blog, "To Sparsify or To Quantize: A Hardware Architecture View", by Sai Srivatsa Bhamidipati of Google
https://www.sigarch.org/to-sparsify-or-to-quantize-a-hardware-architecture-view/
To Sparsify or To Quantize: A Hardware Architecture View

The debate of sparsity versus quantization has made its rounds in the ML optimization community for many years. Now, with the Generative AI revolution, the debate is intensifying. While these might…

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Call for papers:
2026 IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization
https://iiswc.org/iiswc2026/cfp.html

Call for participation:
5th Workshop on Heterogeneous Composable and Disaggregated Systems (HCDS 2026)
Co-located with ASPLOS 2026
https://hcds-workshop.github.io/edition/2026/

Call for Papers

Official website for IISWC 2026

IISWC 2026 | September 27th-September 29th, 2026 Boulder

Lots more calls for y'all today! Whether you're conferencing, workshopping, competing, or symposing, we've got something for you:

PACT 2026
Call for contributions
https://www.sigarch.org/call-contributions/pact-2026/

LCTES @ PLDI 2026
Call for contributions
https://www.sigarch.org/call-contributions/lctes-2026/

ISMM @ PLDI 2026
Call for contributions
https://www.sigarch.org/call-contributions/ismm-pldi-2026/

NVMW 2026
Call for participation
https://www.sigarch.org/call-participation/nvmw-2026/

17th International Symposium on Advanced Parallel Processing Technology (APPT 2026)
Call for contributions
https://www.sigarch.org/call-contributions/appt-2026/

Next-Generation Championship in Branch Prediction (CBP-NG) @ ISCA 2026
Call for contributions
https://www.sigarch.org/call-contributions/next-generation-championship-in-branch-prediction-cbp-ng-isca-2026/

23rd ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers
Call for posters
https://www.computingfrontiers.org/2026/call4posters.html

PACT 2026

The International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT 2026) Illini Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA October 19–22, 2026 PACT is a premier forum for research at the i…

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Undergraduates and junior graduate students! Want to attend ISCA 2026, meet your cohort, and participate in some professional development? Both YArch and uArch are calling for your applications!

YArch @ ISCA 2026
Tentative paper registration deadline is March 27, 2026
https://yarch2026.epfl.ch/

uArch @ ISCA 2026
https://sites.google.com/view/uarchworkshop/home
Travel grants for uArch (Undergraduate Architecture Mentoring Workshop) 2026, Deadline March 6th, 2026

Info for Students:
We are excited to host enthusiastic undergrads and early master’s students who may be interested in graduate studies in Computer Architecture, but who do not have an extensive network or guidance to make an informed decision on the topic. The workshop is open to all qualifying students and there are full and partial travel grants available for students: Apply here: https://sites.google.com/view/uarchworkshop/apply
uArch workshop is held in conjunction with ISCA 2026, on June 28, 2026.

Info for Sponsors/Professors:
Consider partially sponsoring an undergraduate for the uArch workshop by applying here (https://sites.google.com/view/uarchworkshop/apply) directly.

YArch'26

Got a macro idea for the MICRO conference? Register your abstract by 31st March and submit by 7th April!
https://www.microarch.org/micro59/submit/papers.php
MICRO 2026: Call for Papers

Our Blog Editor Prof Dmitry Ponomarev has been bloggin’, and now he wants you to get bloggin' too!
https://www.sigarch.org/from-the-editors-desk-2026-edition/
From the Editor’s Desk – 2026 Edition

As we close the book on 2025, Computer Architecture Today has seen another successful year of community engagement. We published 29 posts covering a wide spectrum of topics—from datacenter energy-e…

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We've got a new blog and a few calls for you today!

First, "Multi-Agent Memory from a Computer Architecture Perspective: Visions and Challenges Ahead" by Zhongming Yu and Prof Jishen Zhao
https://www.sigarch.org/multi-agent-memory-from-a-computer-architecture-perspective-visions-and-challenges-ahead/

Call for contributions: ESWeek 2026
https://www.sigarch.org/call-contributions/esweek-2026/

Call for contributions: GLSVLSI 2026
https://www.sigarch.org/call-contributions/glsvlsi-2026/

Call for contributions: 2nd IEEE International Conference on LLM-Aided Design (LAD 2026)
https://www.sigarch.org/call-contributions/2nd-ieee-international-conference-on-llm-aided-design-lad-2026/

Call for participation: ASPLOS 2026
https://www.sigarch.org/call-participation/asplos-2026/

Multi-Agent Memory from a Computer Architecture Perspective: Visions and Challenges Ahead

Large language model (LLM) agents are quickly moving from “single agent” to *multi-agent systems*: tool-using agents, planner-orchestrator, debate teams, specialized sub-agents that collaborate to …

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Check out the PIPING hot new blog post that we ORGANised for y'all! Also a call for ESWeek to check out :)

PipeOrgan: Modeling Memory-Bandwidth-Bound Executions for AI and Beyond
by Prof Mark D. Hill
https://www.sigarch.org/pipeorgan-modeling-memory-bandwidth-bound-executions-for-ai-and-beyond/

IEEE/ACM ESWeek 2026 Call for Contributions
https://esweek.org/

PipeOrgan: Modeling Memory-Bandwidth-Bound Executions for AI and Beyond

TL;DR: Latency-tolerant architectures, e.g., GPUs, increasingly use memory/storage hierarchies, e.g., for KV Caches to speed Large-Language Model AI inference. To aid codesign of such workloads and…

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In Memoriam: Remembering Mike Flynn

Michael J. Flynn is a widely respected contributor—indeed a giant—in the field of Computer Architecture.  He made highly significant and impactful contributions throughout his career, both in indus…

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