gem5 Workshop at ISCA 2026


We are excited to host the gem5 Workshop alongside ISCA 2026 in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Sat, June 27th, 2026. The workshop brings together everyone who depends on gem5—from long-time maintainers to new researchers—to share updates, showcase work, and shape the simulator’s future roadmap.

Key Dates

Schedule

The event will be held in Room 306A.

Time Title Presenter (underlined) / Contributors
08:10 Using gem5 For Open Source Computer Architecture Research Matthew D. Sinclair [University of Wisconsin-Madison]
08:45 Enabling gem5 Full System Simulation for Modern Android Francesco Peverelli [Huawei]; Boris Grot [University of Edinburgh]
09:10 Extensible Runtime Thermal Modeling in gem5 Akanksha Chaudhari [University of Wisconsin - Madison]; Alex Smith [University of Wisconsin - Madison]; Matthew D. Sinclair [University of Wisconsin-Madison]
09:35 Visualizing gem5 O3CPU Execution Traces with Perfetto Anton Shurygin [Moscow Center for Advanced Studies]; Andrey Derzhavin [Moscow Center for Advanced Studies]; Denis Los [Moscow Center for Advanced Studies]
10:00 Coffee break  
10:45 Bringing Arm Cortex-M to gem5: Enabling Embedded Robotics Research Zhantong Qiu [University of California, Davis]; Derin Ozturk [Cornell University]; Jason Lowe-Power [University of California, Davis]; Christopher Batten [Cornell University]
11:10 Updating gem5’s Memory Dependence Prediction with PHAST Luke Panayi [Imperial College London]; Sebastian Sumin Kim [University of Murcia]; Alberto Ros [University of Murcia]; Martin Berger [University of Sussex]; Paul Kelly [Imperial College London]
11:35 RISC-V KVM Acceleration in gem5: Fast Full-System Linux Boot and Handoff to Detailed Simulation Selim Sandal [Ozyegin University]; Ismail Akturk [Ozyegin University]; Zhenman Fang [University of Minnesota]
12:00 Lunch  
13:30 Analyzing gem5 Commit-Code Inconsistency with LLMs Elise Song [University of Wisconsin-Madison]; Aaryan Patel [University of Wisconsin-Madison]; Guruprasad Viswanathan Ramesh [University of Wisconsin-Madison]; Jack West [University of Wisconsin-Madison]; Lance Hartung [University of Wisconsin-Madison]; Ethan Cecchetti [University of Wisconsin-Madison]; Kassem Fawaz [University of Wisconsin-Madison]; Joshua San Miguel [University of Wisconsin-Madison]; Matthew D. Sinclair [University of Wisconsin-Madison]
13:55 System-Level Modeling of Digital In-Memory Computing Accelerators in gem5 for Edge SoC Tiya Jreige [Politecnico di Milano]; Tommaso Spagnolo [Politecnico di Milano]; Cristina Silvano [Politecnico di Milano]
14:20 CDS: Deadline-Aware, Multi-Chiplet GPU Scheduler in gem5 Tanmay Anand [Microsoft Corporation]; Matthew D. Sinclair [University of Wisconsin-Madison]; Michael Swift [University of Wisconsin-Madison]
14:45 Hardware Security Evaluation in gem5: Benchmarking Microarchitectural Attacks Daphne Han [University of Wisconsin-Madison]; Elise Song [University of Wisconsin-Madison]; Joshua San Miguel [University of Wisconsin-Madison]
15:10 gem5 Support for Pseudo-Random Number Generation Ranganath Selagamsetty [University of Wisconsin - Madison]; Paridhi Gupta [University of Wisconsin - Madison]; Wuzhen Li [University of Wisconsin - Madison]; Joshua San Miguel [University of Wisconsin-Madison]; Mikko Lipasti [University of Wisconsin - Madison]
15:35 Coffee break  
16:00 CRISPIER: A CRISP-Based DVFS Implementation in gem5 for AMD GPUs Nishant Aggarwal [University of Wisconsin-Madison]; Rutwik Jain [University of Wisconsin-Madison]; Matthew D. Sinclair [University of Wisconsin-Madison]
16:25 gem5-micro: Programmable Micro-Op Access for Architecture Research Puneetha Ramachandra [Google]
16:50 Closing Remarks  

Contact

For questions, concerns, or submission trouble, reach out to Bobby Bruce at bbruce@ucdavis.edu.