In conjunction with ISCA 2020, we will be holding a gem5 Tutorial and Workshop on May 30th in Valencia, Spain. In the morning, we will be running a Learning gem5 Tutorial, and in the afternoon we will have a gem5 users' workshop. The workshop will begin with a keynote detailing the recent changes in gem5 and announcing the first stable version of gem5, gem5-20. The workshop will also include a number of community-contributed talks. See below for details on how to submit an abstract for a talk.
Note: You are not required to register for ISCA to register for this workshop. We hope to see you in Valencia!
This tutorial builds off of Learning gem5 and will introduce architecture researchers to the inner workings of gem5. The goal of the tutorial is not to introduce attendees to every feature of gem5, but to give them a framework to succeed when using gem5 in their future research.
This tutorial is perfect for beginning graduate students or other computer architecture researchers to get started using one of the architecture communities most popular tool.
To get the most out of this tutorial, you are encouraged to bring a laptop to work along. This will be an interactive tutorial, with many coding examples. Additionally, by bringing a laptop, you will be able to easily participate in the afternoon coding sprint.
While this tutorial is appropriate for you even if you‘ve never used gem5 before, you’ll get more out of it if you familiarize yourself with gem5 before coming. Specifically, by downloading gem5 and making sure it builds on your system you will save yourself a lot of time. Reading and completing the first chapter from Learning gem5 before coming to the tutorial is strongly encouraged.
The primary audience is computer architecture researchers that wish to learn how to use gem5, one of the architecture communities most popular and powerful simulators This includes junior computer architecture researchers (e.g., first or second year graduate students) who are planning on using gem5 for future architecture research. We also invite others who want a high-level idea of how gem5 works and its applicability to architecture research.
The gem5 community is excited to announce the 3rd gem5 Users’ workshop held in conjunction with ISCA 2020 in Valencia, Spain. 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 of May 30.
The workshop will follow a half-day “Learning gem5” tutorial.
The workshop will include a keynote presentation “RE-gem5 and gem5-20: Past, Present, and Future of the gem5 Community Infrastructure.”
We invite the gem5 community to submit abstracts (1-2 paragraphs) for short presentations. The scope of this workshop is broadly the gem5 user and development community. Topics of interest include:
We encourage accepted presentations to post a full paper to arXiv or other archival repository in order to give other users a citable source for your contribution. These sources may be cited in future gem5 release notes.
Please submit your abstracts via this [Google Form](insert link). The deadline to submit an abstract is April 10th and we will send notifications by April 14th before the ISCA early registration deadline (April 16th). Due to the close proximity to other deadlines/conferences and the early registration deadline, there will not be any extension.
Form for abstract submission: <INSERT THIS>
More information can be found on the gem5 website: https://www.gem5.org/events/isca-2020 Looking forward to seeing you in Valencia!
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 1-1:45 | Keynote: RE-gem5 and gem5-20: Past, Present, and Future of the gem5 Community Infrastructure |
| 1:45-2 | Community feedback |
| 2-3 | Community presentations |
| 3-3:30 | Break |
| 3:30-4:30 | Community presentations |
| 4:30-5 | Wrap up and more feedback |