Events


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 Though the material in these tutorials can be out of date, the tutorial materials present a more organized (and in some cases more in-depth) overview than the wiki documentation.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.

ISCA 2020: 3rd gem5 Users’ Workshop

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.

ICS 2018: Vector Architecture Exploration with gem5

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.

ASPLOS 2018: Learning gem5

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.

Arm Research Starter Kit on System Modeling using gem5

https://github.com/arm-university/arm-gem5-rsk

Getting started instructions and an overview of the HPI model.

ISCA 45: AMD gem5 APU 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: gem5 workshop

ARM Research Summit 2017 Workshop covers many advanced topics in gem5 such as Ruby, Garnet, and SystemC.

gem5 Tutorial and Coding Sprint at HPCA 2017

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 at ISCA-44 (Toronto, 2017)

dist-gem5 is a gem5-based simulation infrastructure which enables full-system simulation of a parallel/distributed computer system using multiple simulation hosts.

ASPLOS 22

Full day tutorial on gem5 at ASPLOS 2017

HiPEAC Computer Systems Week

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.

ISCA 38

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.

ISCA 2011

  • Slides
  • Podcasts/video coming soon provided there are no technical difficulties

ASPLOS-13

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.

  • Slides
  • Handouts
  • Video
    • Introduction – A brief overview of M5, its capabilities and concepts
    • Running – How to compile and run M5
    • Full System – Full system benchmarks, disk images, and scripts
    • Objects – An overview of the various object models that are available out of the box
    • Extending – M5 internals, defining new objects & parameters, statistics, ISA descriptions, ARM & X86 support, future development
    • Debugging – Facilities in M5 to aid debugging
  • Description

ISCA-33

This tutorial, held in June 2006 at ISCA 33 in Boston, was the first one to cover M5 2.0.

ISCA-32

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.