Prestigious publishing in CS
Research staff and outstanding graduates in the Research School of Computer Science have recently been advised that their work (published in a paper, “Looking Back on the Language and Hardware Revolutions: Measured Power, Performance, and Scaling,”) has been selected for publication by the Communications of the ACM (CACM) Research Highlights. CACM is the flagship monthly journal of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in the USA. The paper reports on ANU, University of Texas, and the University of Washington’s investigations which are the first to systematically measure and analyze application power, performance, and energy on a wide variety of computer hardware.
According to Professor Steve Blackburn, one of the lead researchers on the team, the findings could help lower the energy costs of electronic devices ranging from small mobile devices and supercomputers to massive server farms.
Styled similarly to ‘Science’ or ‘Nature’ the computer science (CS) magazine appeals to a broad section of people in computing including academics, industry researchers and practitioners. CACM has more than 95,000 subscribers from all over the world and publication in ‘Research Highlights’ is regarded as a significant honour as it is extremely selective (publishing only 2 peer reviewed papers per month from the whole field of computer science). The challenge for the paper’s authors was to re-cast the research findings for a much wider audience than may be supposed for a CS journal.
“Dr David Patterson has been selected to write a forward to the paper explaining why it was picked for publication. He will paint a picture of the context of the research in computer science, and its importance, ” said Professor Blackburn.
The paper has also been selected as one of this year’s “most significant research papers in computer architecture based on novelty and long-term impact” by the journal IEEE Micro.
“I am delighted to hear this news,” said Professor John Hosking Dean of the ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science.
“Congratulations to all the team on its findings here and in the US, and to Professor Blackburn’s student, Ting Cao, for her extraordinary work in making this research happen,” he said.
