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Use when deciding whether a project belongs at ISCA, the ACM/IEEE flagship architecture symposium — testing whether the machine itself is the contribution, choosing between ISCA's November gate and the MICRO, HPCA, and ASPLOS seats in the architecture year, and weighing the main track against the industry track.

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# ISCA Topic Selection

ISCA reviews reward papers whose central object is a hardware organization: a
pipeline, a cache hierarchy, a memory controller, an accelerator datapath, an
interconnect, a coherence or consistency mechanism. Software may motivate the work
and co-design may strengthen it, but at ISCA the question a program committee member
carries into every discussion is *what does this paper teach us about how to build
machines?* Projects that cannot answer that in one sentence tend to be respected and
rejected in the same review.

## The center-of-gravity question

Write down the single artifact your evaluation section studies hardest. Then ask
where its novelty lives:
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