ACM SIGMETRICS
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| ACM SIGMETRICS | |
|---|---|
| Name | ACM SIGMETRICS |
| Founded | 1973 |
| Field | Performance analysis, measurement |
| Parent organization | Association for Computing Machinery |
| Headquarters | New York City |
ACM SIGMETRICS is the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Measurement and Evaluation, focusing on the performance analysis of computer systems and networks. Founded in the early 1970s, it has ties to forums and events such as IEEE INFOCOM, USENIX, ACM SOSP, ACM SIGCOMM and IFIP that have shaped research on benchmarking, queuing theory, and systems evaluation. Prominent venues and figures associated with its community include connections to Bell Labs, IBM Research, Microsoft Research, Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of California, Berkeley.
History
The group's origins trace to the era of mainframe research and the rise of performance studies at institutions like Bell Labs, AT&T, RAND Corporation, Carnegie Mellon University and Princeton University, with early influence from conferences such as AFIPS and journals like Communications of the ACM, IEEE Transactions on Computers and Operations Research. During the 1970s and 1980s the SIG interacted with communities around Queueing Theory, Little's Law developments, and workshops connected to ACM SIGOPS, ACM SIGPLAN and ACM SIGARCH. Through the 1990s the SIG's community overlapped with research at HP Labs, DEC, Sun Microsystems and projects like ARPANET, Xerox PARC and DARPA, influencing performance benchmarking tied to initiatives such as SPEC and standards bodies like IEEE. In the 2000s and 2010s the SIG's activities aligned with research centers at UC San Diego, Cornell University, Princeton, ETH Zurich and National University of Singapore, engaging with developments at Google, Amazon Web Services, Facebook and Microsoft Azure.
Scope and Activities
The SIG's scope covers experimental and analytical studies related to measurement and evaluation relevant to communities at ACM SIGCOMM, ACM SIGOPS, ACM SIGARCH, IEEE INFOCOM, USENIX, and IFIP. Topics range across performance evaluation of systems developed at Stanford University, MIT, Berkeley, Columbia University and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and methodologies related to works from John von Neumann-era influences such as Queueing Theory and applied analyses seen in Operations Research and Statistics journals. SIG activities include organizing panels with participants from Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks, and research labs like IBM Research and Microsoft Research, coordinating curriculum sessions relevant to courses at Carnegie Mellon University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Purdue University and University of Texas at Austin.
Conferences and Workshops
The SIG sponsors flagship events that parallel forums such as ACM SIGCOMM, ACM SIGOPS, IEEE INFOCOM, USENIX ATC and regional workshops like NSDI, SOSP, FAST and SIGMETRICS Symposium-related colocations. Typical program committees include researchers affiliated with Stanford University, MIT, UC Berkeley, Princeton University, ETH Zurich, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, Tsinghua University, Peking University and National University of Singapore. Workshops often feature invited talks by scholars from Bell Labs, IBM Research, Microsoft Research, Google Research and practitioners from Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Netflix.
Publications
The SIG's proceedings and special issues appear in venues connected to ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and proceedings indexed alongside Proceedings of the ACM and Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Editorial boards and contributing authors frequently hail from Princeton University, Cornell University, UC Berkeley, MIT, ETH Zurich, University of Toronto, University of Washington and Imperial College London. Work presented at SIG venues is often cited alongside influential papers from SIGCOMM, SOSP, OSDI, NSDI and FAST.
Awards and Recognition
The community recognizes contributions through awards analogous to honors presented by ACM, IEEE, SIGCOMM, SIGOPS and academic prizes at institutions like IEEE Technical Committee events. Notable researchers who have received community recognition have affiliations with Bell Labs, IBM Research, Microsoft Research, Stanford University, MIT, UC Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University and Princeton University. SIG-associated awards reflect achievements comparable to prizes such as the ACM Turing Award, IEEE John von Neumann Medal, SIGCOMM Award and USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award in their respective communities.
Membership and Organization Structure
Membership is organized under the umbrella of Association for Computing Machinery with chapters that mirror regional grouping practices seen in ACM SIGGRAPH, ACM SIGPLAN and ACM SIGCHI. Officers and committees draw on volunteers from universities including Stanford University, MIT, UC Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University, Princeton University, ETH Zurich, Tsinghua University and industry labs such as Bell Labs, IBM Research, Microsoft Research and Google Research. Governance practices follow precedents established by ACM Council procedures and interactions with professional bodies like IEEE Computer Society and IFIP.