gem5 Workshop at ISCA 2025
Call for Participation
We are pleased to announce the gem5 Workshop at ISCA 2025! We welcome the community to join us for a full day of discussions, presentations, and collaboration centered around the gem5 computer architecture simulator. Whether you’re a new user, seasoned developer, or someone simply curious about gem5, we encourage your participation.
Event Information
📍 Venue: Waseda University - Waseda Campus, Tokyo, Japan
📅 Date: June 22, 2025
⏰ Time: 8:00 AM – 3:00 PM
💻 Registration URL: https://www.iscaconf.org/isca2025/attend/register.php
Event Schedule and Presentations
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 08:00 | Welcome Presentation by Jason Lowe-Power (Google/UC Davis) |
| 08:20 | PinCPU: Fast-Forwarding Simulations with Dynamic Binary Instrumentation, by Nicholas Mosier (Stanford), Hamed Nemati (KTH), John C. Mitchell (Stanford), Caroline Trippel (Stanford) |
| 08:40 | gem5-CXL: A Full-System Multi-Host Simulation Infrastructure, by Leonardo Redivo, Mahyar Samani, William Shaddix, Venkatesh Akella, Jason Lowe-Power (UC Davis) |
| 09:00 | gem5-dbc: A Declarative Benchmark Configuration Framework for Architectural Exploration with gem5, by Carlos Falquez, Nam Ho, Estela Suarez, Fabian Schätzle (FZJ), Antoni Portero (BSC), Dirk Pleiter (U Groningen) |
| 09:20 | Implementing Support for Extensible Power Modeling in gem5, by Alex Smith, Matt Sinclair (University of Wisconsin-Madison) |
| 09:40 | Unwinding simulated function stacks in gem5, by Rashid Aligholipour, Johan Söderström, Yuan Yao (Uppsala), Peter Munch (TU Berlin) |
| 10:00 | Coffee Break (30 minutes) |
| 10:30 | Anatomy of the gem5 simulator, by Johan Söderström, Rashid Aligholipour, Yuan Yao (Uppsala) |
| 10:50 | ProtoSLICC: Automated Synthesis of Gem5-based Cache Coherence Controllers, by Nicolò Carpentieri, Anatole Lefort, David Schall, Pramod Bhatotia (TUM) |
| 11:10 | SecureView: Visualizing Defense against Transient Execution Side Channels, by Philipp Schmitz, Tobias Jauch, Alex Wezel, Dominik Stoffel, Wolfgang Kunz (RPTU), Mohammad Fadiheh (Stanford), Thore Tiemann, Jonah Heller, Thomas Eisenbarth (Lübeck) |
| 11:30 | Toward Full-System Heterogeneous Simulation: Merging gem5-SALAM with Mainline gem5, by Akanksha Chaudhari, Matt Sinclair (UW-Madison) |
| 12:00 | Community Luncheon (See details below) |
| 13:30 | A Top-Down Methodology for gem5, by Osman Yaşar, David Schall, Pramod Bhatotia (TUM) |
| 13:50 | The RISC-V Hypervisor Extension in gem5, by Nikos Karystinos, George-Marios Fragkoulis, Dimitris Gizopoulos (Athens), George Papadimitriou (Patras) |
| 14:10 | Narrowing the GAP: Enhancing gem5’s GPU Memory Bandwidth Accuracy, by Yu Xia, Vishnu Ramadas, Matthew Poremba (AMD), Matthew D. Sinclair (UW-Madison) |
| 14:30 | Closing Remarks |
Community Luncheon
Replacing our traditional Town Hall session, the Community Luncheon offers a more relaxed and engaging forum for community interaction. This 90-minute session, held during the lunch break, invites participants to ask questions, propose ideas, and discuss any gem5-related topic—whether professionally or casually.
Boxed lunches will be provided, and attendees are encouraged to remain in the room to eat and connect. This informal environment is designed to strengthen ties between users and developers and to foster transparent and collaborative conversations within the gem5 ecosystem.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this event, please don’t hesitate to reach out to the organizer Bobby R. Bruce at bbruce@ucdavis.edu.