We have held a handful of tutorials on M5/gem5s at various conferences. Though the material in these tutorials can be out of date, the tutorial materials present a more organized (and in some cases more in-depth) overview than the wiki documentation. We highly recommend taking a look at the most recent tutorial as a complement to the documentation on the wiki.
The slides and handouts are the same material except that the handouts are formatted with two slides per page.
More information can be found on the event's page.
We will be running a gem5 workshop on June 17th 2023, co-located at ISCA 2023 in Orlando, Florida.
This will be an all-day event and give members of the gem5 community opportunity to present and discuss their gem5-related contributions, research, and thoughts. Our goal with this workshop is to provide a space for free-flowing discussions and opportunities for networking.
More information can be found on the event's page.
We will be hosting the 5th gem5 Tutorial HPCA 2023.
The tutorial will give those new to gem5 a “crash course” in using the tool to carry out architecture research.
More information can be found on the official Boot Camp event page
The first gem5 Boot Camp 2022 is to be held at UC Davis on July 11th to July 15th. The 5 day event will give early-career researchers an opportunity to learn how to use gem5 in their research. With the assumption of no prior knowledge, the gem5 boot camp will introduce users to all major areas of gem5, such creating of SimObjects, handling the gem5 statistics, working with the gem5 standard library, creating full-system simulations, managing experiment runs using gem5art, and more. The event will also given researchers an opportunity to network with others interested in computer architecture simulation.
More information can be found on the event's page.
We will be hosting the 4th gem5 Tutorial and User's Workshop at ICSA 2022.
The tutorial will give those new to gem5 a “crash course” in using the tool to carry out architecture research.
The workshop will consist of a keynote presentation and a series of 15 minute presentations by members of the gem5 community.
More information on the workshop page.
The goal of the workshop is to provide a forum to discuss what is going on in the community, how we can best leverage each other's contributions, and how we can continue to make gem5 a successful community-supported simulation framework. The workshop will be a half day in the afternoon on May 30.
Details on how to submit an abstract for a presentation can be found on the workshop page.
Vector Architecture Exploration with gem5
International Conference on Supercomputing, Beijing (China), June 2018
This tutorial covers the Arm Scalable Vector Extension (SVE) and how to use gem5 to explore system architecture designs of microarchitectures implementing SVE.
Full-day gem5 tutorial at ASPLOS 2018
This tutorial covers the basics of building gem5, running it, extending and contributing to gem5, and other advanced gem5 topics.
https://github.com/arm-university/arm-gem5-rsk
Getting started instructions and an overview of the HPI model.
AMD gem5 APU Simulator: Modeling GPUs Using the Machine ISA
This tutorial covers the gem5 APU model in detail. In particular, we discuss the model's support for executing GPU machine ISA instructions and the full user space ROCm stack.
ARM Research Summit 2017 Workshop covers many advanced topics in gem5 such as Ruby, Garnet, and SystemC.
This tutorial introduces gem5 topics covered in the Learning gem5 book and paired junior software developers with seniors developers in a coding sprint to add features and bug fixes to the gem5 codebase using Gerrit.
dist-gem5 is a gem5-based simulation infrastructure which enables full-system simulation of a parallel/distributed computer system using multiple simulation hosts.
Full day tutorial on gem5 at ASPLOS 2017
This tutorial was held in Gothenburg, Sweden in April 2012. It covers gem5 although for information about Ruby you should look at the ISCA 38 tutorial. We recorded video of the tutorial which is available below.
This tutorial, held in June 2011 at ISCA-38, it covered gem5 (the merger between M5 and GEMS). It was extremely well attended with 65 people participating.
This tutorial, held in March 2008 at ASPLOS XIII in Seattle, covered M5 2.0 and included several small examples on creating SimObjects and adding parameters.
This tutorial, held in June 2006 at ISCA 33 in Boston, was the first one to cover M5 2.0.
Our first tutorial, held in June 2005 at ISCA 32 in Madison, is rather dated as it covered M5 1.X and not 2.0.