Proceedings of the 6th Australasian conference on Computer systems architecture

This year's conference is the sixth in the series, but under a slightly new name. What used to be the Australasian Computer Architecture Conference is now the Australasian Computer Systems Architecture Conference. The new name reflects a change of emphasis, from being strictly about computer architecture to encompassing more general "systems" work. This change in emphasis is evident in the titles of the accepted papers; about half are about computer architecture, including reconfigurable computing, while the other half reflect the widened scope of the conference. Operating systems in particular are well represented.ACSAC 2001 has also taken the step from a mostly Australia/New Zealand conference towards a regional Asia-Pacific event. This is reflected in the composition of the Program Committee: With nine members from Asia, nine from Australia/New Zealand, and three from the US and Europe, the PC is now very international.The breakdown of the origin of the submitted papers is quite similar to that of the PC. The composition was as follows: Australia, 9 Singapore, 2 Belgium, 1 Japan, 4 USA, 2 India, 1 Taiwan, 4 New Zealand, 1 Germany, 1This is a total of 25 submissions, representing about a 40% increase over the previous year. Of these the PC selected 17 papers for publication. Each paper was independently reviewed by at least two PC members, with as many as six reviews for papers which were in doubt. In average, each paper received 3.3 reviews.