The HPCA Test of Time (ToT) Award Committee is soliciting nominations for the HPCA ToT Award to be given at the International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA 2026). This award recognizes the most influential papers published in past HPCA conferences that have had a significant impact in the field.

The award will recognize an influential HPCA paper whose influence is still felt 18–22 years after its initial publication. In other words, the award will be given to at most one paper that was published at HPCA conferences in any of the years N-22, N-21, N-20, N-19, or N-18. This year, N = 2026, so papers published at HPCA conferences held in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, or 2008 are eligible. An eligible paper that has received at least 100 citations (according to Google Scholar) is
automatically nominated, but explicit nominations of such papers are still encouraged.

We’d like to invite anyone to submit a nomination by the deadline of January 8, 2026. Please submit your nomination via email to the committee chair (Moin Qureshi, moin@gatech.edu).