The MICRO Test of Time (ToT) award recognizes the most influential papers published in prior sessions of the International Symposium on Microarchitecture, each of whom have had significant impact in the field.
Every year, papers are nominated for the award, either by recommendation from members of the computer architecture community, or automatically if they meet a minimum citation count criterion. Winning papers are selected by the ToT Award Committee (see committee formation guidelines), and are announced at that year’s MICRO conference.
2022 Award Committee
- Murali Annavaram
- Reetuparna Das
- Antonio González
- Sudhavna Gurumurthi
- Aamer Jaleel, chair
- André Seznec
- Viji Srinivasan
Past ToT Award Winners
2022
The following two papers were awarded the ninth MICRO Test of Time Award in 2022. These papers were selected from among all the 156 eligible papers published in MICRO conferences that were held between 2000 and 2004 (inclusive).
| Conference | Paper Title | Authors |
|---|---|---|
| MICRO 2003 | A Systematic Methodology to Compute the Architectural Vulnerability Factors for a High-Performance Microprocessor | Shubhendu S. Mukherjee, Christopher T. Weaver, Joel S. Emer, Steven K. Reinhardt, Todd M. Austin |
| MICRO 2003 | Runtime Power Monitoring in High-End Processors: Methodology and Empirical Data | Canturk Isci, Margaret Martonosi |
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2021
The following two papers were awarded the eighth MICRO Test of Time Award in 2021. These papers were selected from among all the 153 eligible papers published in MICRO conferences that were held between 1999 and 2003 (inclusive).
| Conference | Paper Title | Authors |
|---|---|---|
| MICRO 2003 | Single-ISA Heterogeneous Multi-Core Architectures: The Potential for Processor Power Reduction | Rakesh Kumar, Keith I. Farkas, Norman P. Jouppi, Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Dean M. Tullsen |
| MICRO 2003 | Razor: A Low-Power Pipeline Based on Circuit-Level Timing Speculation | Dan Ernst, Nam Sung Kim, Shidhartha Das, Sanjay Pant, Rajeev R. Rao, Toan Pham, Conrad H. Ziesler, David T. Blaauw, Todd M. Austin, Krisztián Flautner, Trevor N. Mudge |
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2020
The following three papers were awarded the seventh MICRO Test of Time Award in 2020. These papers were selected from among all the 148 eligible papers published in MICRO conferences that were held between 1998 and 2002 (inclusive).
| Conference | Paper Title | Authors |
|---|---|---|
| MICRO 1998 | A Dynamic Multithreading Processor | Haitham Akkary, Michael A. Driscoll |
| MICRO 1999 | Fetch Directed Instruction Prefetching | Glenn Reinman, Brad Calder, Todd M. Austin |
| MICRO 2000 | A Permutation-Based Page Interleaving Scheme to Reduce Row-Buffer Conflicts and Exploit Data Locality | Zhao Zhang, Zhichun Zhu, Xiaodong Zhang |
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Highlights About the 2020 Winners
2019
The following two papers were awarded the sixth MICRO Test of Time Award in 2019. These papers were selected from among all the 148 eligible papers published in MICRO conferences that were held between 1997 and 2001 (inclusive).
| Conference | Paper Title | Authors |
|---|---|---|
| MICRO 1999 | Selective Cache Ways: On-Demand Cache Resource Allocation | David H. Albonesi |
| MICRO 2001 | Speculative Lock Elision: Enabling Highly Concurrent Multithreaded Execution | Ravi Rajwar, James R. Goodman |
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2018
The following three papers were awarded the fifth MICRO Test of Time Award in 2018. These papers were selected from among all the 149 eligible papers published in MICRO conferences that were held between 1996 and 2000 (inclusive).
| Conference | Paper Title | Authors |
|---|---|---|
| MICRO 1996 | Efficient Path Profiling | Thomas Ball, James R. Larus |
| MICRO 1996 | Assigning Confidence to Conditional Branch Predictions | Erik Jacobsen, Eric Rotenberg, James E. Smith |
| MICRO 1999 | DIVA: A Reliable Substrate for Deep Submicron Microarchitecture Design | Todd M. Austin |
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2017
The following paper was awarded the fourth MICRO Test of Time Award in 2017. This paper was selected from among all the 156 eligible papers published in MICRO conferences that were held between 1995 and 1999 (inclusive).
| Conference | Paper Title | Authors |
|---|---|---|
| MICRO 1996 | Exceeding the Dataflow Limit Via Value Prediction | Mikko H. Lipasti, John Paul Shen |
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2016
The following paper was awarded the third MICRO Test of Time Award in 2016. This paper was selected from among all the 156 papers published in MICRO conferences that were held between 1994 and 1998 (inclusive).
| Conference | Paper Title | Authors |
|---|---|---|
| MICRO 1994 | Iterative Modulo Scheduling: An Algorithm for Software Pipelining Loops | B. Ramakrishna Rau |
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Onur Mutlu, Scott A. Mahlke, Thomas M. Conte, Wen-mei W. Hwu
Iterative Modulo Scheduling
IEEE Micro, Vol. 38, No. 1, January/February 2018
2015
The following paper was awarded the second MICRO Test of Time Award in 2015. This paper was selected from among all the 156 papers published in MICRO conferences that were held between 1993 and 1997 (inclusive).
| Conference | Paper Title | Authors |
|---|---|---|
| MICRO 1996 | Trace Cache: A Low Latency Approach to High Bandwidth Instruction Fetching | Eric Rotenberg, Steve Bennett, James E. Smith |
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2014
The following are the 10 papers that were awarded the first MICRO Test of Time Award in 2014. These 10 papers were selected from among all the 544 papers published in MICRO conferences that were held between 1968 and 1992 (inclusive).
| Conference | Paper Title | Authors |
|---|---|---|
| MICRO 1978 | Microprogrammed Implementation of A Single Chip Microprocessor | Skip Stritter, Nick Tredennick |
| MICRO 1981 | Some Scheduling Techniques and An Easily Schedulable Horizontal Architecture for High Performance Scientific Computing | B. Ramakrishna Rau, C. D. Glaeser |
| MICRO 1982 | MIPS: A Microprocessor Architecture | John Hennessy, Norman Jouppi, Steven Przybylski, Christopher Rowen, Thomas Gross, Forest Baskett, John Gill |
| MICRO 1985 | Critical Issues Regarding HPS, A High Performance Microarchitecture | Yale N. Patt, Stephen W. Melvin, Wen-mei Hwu, Michael C. Shebanow |
| MICRO 1985 | HPS, A New Microarchitecture: Rationale and Introduction | Yale N. Patt, Wen-mei Hwu, Michael Shebanow |
| MICRO 1988 | Hardware Support for Large Atomic Units in Dynamically Scheduled Machines | Stephen W. Melvin, Michael C. Shebanow, Yale N. Patt |
| MICRO 1991 | Two-Level Adaptive Training Branch Prediction | Tse-Yu Yeh, Yale N. Patt |
| MICRO 1992 | Effective Compiler Support For Predicated Execution Using the Hyperblock | Scott A. Mahlke, David C. Lin, William Y. Chen, Richard E. Hank, Roger A. Bringmann |
| MICRO 1992 | Code Generation Schema for Modulo Scheduled Loops | B. Ramakrishna Rau, Michael S. Schlansker, P. P. Tirumalai |
| MICRO 1992 | Executing Compressed Programs on An Embedded RISC Architecture | Andrew Wolfe, Alex Chanin |
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2014 Call for Nominations (PDF)
Onur Mutlu, Rich Belgard
Introducing the MICRO Test of Time Awards: Concept, Process, 2014 Winners, and the Future
IEEE Micro, Vol. 35, No. 2, March/April 2015
Onur Mutlu, Rich Belgard, Nick Tredennick, Mike Schlansker
The 2014 MICRO Test of Time Award Winners: From 1978 to 1992
IEEE Micro, Vol. 36, No. 1, January/February 2016
Onur Mutlu, Rich Belgard, Thomas R. Gross, Norman P. Jouppi, John L. Hennessy, Steven A. Przybylski, Chris Rowen, Yale N. Patt, Wen-mei W. Hwu, Stephen W. Melvin, Michael Shebanow, Tse-Yu Yeh, Andy Wolfe
Common Bonds: MIPS, HPS, Two-Level Branch Prediction, and Compressed Code RISC Processor
IEEE Micro, Vol. 36, No. 4, July/August 2016
Guidelines for the Formation of the MICRO ToT Award Committee
Draft version, based on IEEE TCCA guidelines on HPCA ToT Award Committee formation
- The MICRO ToT Committee chair is appointed by the MICRO SC chair(s). The chairs can delegate the committee formation to the ToT committee chair.
- Members, including the chair, serve up to two 3-year terms (as best as possible).
- The committee should consist of 5–7 members. At least 1 member is recommended to be from the MICRO SC, and at least 2 members should be from outside the MICRO SC.
- At least two members should be from industry.
- The SC chair(s) and the award committee chair should strive for diversity in forming the committee along a number of axes: gender, institutional affiliation, geographic location, age, etc.