gem5 Workshop at ISCA 2025
Call for Participation
The gem5 Workshop at ISCA 2025 brought together the community for a full day of discussions, presentations, and collaboration centered around the gem5 computer architecture simulator. The event featured presentations on research, new features, and community developments.
Event Information
đź“Ť Venue: Waseda University - Waseda Campus, Tokyo, Japan Okuma Auditorium (Small)
đź“… Date: June 22, 2025
⏰ Time: 8:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Event Schedule and Presentations
| Time | Session | Video | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08:00 | Welcome Presentation by Jason Lowe-Power (Google/UC Davis) | Video | Â |
| 08:20 | PinCPU: Fast-Forwarding Simulations with Dynamic Binary Instrumentation, by Nicholas Mosier (Stanford), Hamed Nemati (KTH), John C. Mitchell (Stanford), Caroline Trippel (Stanford) | Â | Slides |
| 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) | Video | Slides |
| 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) | Video |  |
| 09:20 | Implementing Support for Extensible Power Modeling in gem5, by Alex Smith, Matt Sinclair (University of Wisconsin-Madison) | Video | Slides |
| 09:40 | Unwinding simulated function stacks in gem5, by Rashid Aligholipour, Johan Söderström, Yuan Yao (Uppsala), Peter Munch (TU Berlin) | Video |  |
| 10:00 | Coffee Break (30 minutes) | Â | Â |
| 10:30 | Anatomy of the gem5 simulator, by Johan Söderström, Rashid Aligholipour, Yuan Yao (Uppsala) | Video |  |
| 10:50 | ProtoSLICC: Automated Synthesis of Gem5-based Cache Coherence Controllers, by Nicolò Carpentieri, Anatole Lefort, David Schall, Pramod Bhatotia (TUM) | Video |  |
| 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 (LĂĽbeck) | Video | Slides |
| 11:30 | Toward Full-System Heterogeneous Simulation: Merging gem5-SALAM with Mainline gem5, by Akanksha Chaudhari, Matt Sinclair (UW-Madison) | Video | Slides |
| 12:00 | Community Luncheon Note: There is no food in the Auditorium | Â | Â |
| 13:30 | A Top-Down Methodology for gem5, by Osman YaĹźar, David Schall, Pramod Bhatotia (TUM) | Video | Â |
| 13:50 | The RISC-V Hypervisor Extension in gem5, by Nikos Karystinos, George-Marios Fragkoulis, Dimitris Gizopoulos (Athens), George Papadimitriou (Patras) | Video | Slides |
| 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) | Video | Slides |
| 14:30 | Closing Remarks | Video | Â |
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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.