- Conference
- MICRO 2026 — 59th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture
- Location
- Athens, Greece
- Conference dates
- 31 October – 4 November 2026
- Workshop date
- 1 November 2026
- Room
- To be announced
- Materials
- vortexgpgpu/vortex_tutorials
About
The Vortex Workshop brings together Vortex developers, contributors, and users from academia and industry to discuss Vortex-related research. The Vortex Tutorial is held in conjunction with the workshop, providing an introduction to Vortex and its use in research and teaching.
The workshop offers an opportunity to share ongoing efforts in Vortex development or research using Vortex, thereby fostering the Vortex and broader open-source GPGPU community. Recent editions have featured work from Georgia Tech, UCLA, UC Berkeley, imec/KU Leuven, EPFL, NTUA, TU Munich, Université Grenoble Alpes, Columbia, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Call for Papers
We invite submissions describing new microarchitecture, compiler, runtime, tooling, or application work built on or evaluated with Vortex, as well as experience reports on using Vortex in research and in the classroom.
Topics of interest
Topics of interest for the Vortex Workshop include, but are not limited to:
- Design and implementation of Vortex GPGPU
- OpenCL/CUDA running on Vortex
- Compiler optimizations for Vortex
- Memory hierarchy and management in Vortex GPGPU
- Tensor cores, sparse units, and other domain-specialized units
- Machine learning, graphics, and neural rendering on Vortex
- Benchmarking and performance evaluation
- Applications and case studies using Vortex
- Security, reliability, and fault tolerance in GPGPU architecture
- Comparison of Vortex with other GPGPU architectures
- FPGA/ASIC implementation of Vortex
Submission guidelines
Authors are invited to submit 2-page papers, which must be formatted in accordance with the ACM two-column style. ACM Word or LaTeX style templates are available here. References do not count toward the page limit.
Note: Workshop publications do not preclude publishing at future conference venues.
Important dates
| Date | Milestone |
|---|---|
| Sep 6, 2026 | Paper submission deadline (23:59 AoE) |
| Sep 27, 2026 | Author notification |
| TBA | Workshop date (during MICRO 2026, Oct 31 – Nov 4) |
The workshop day within the MICRO programme will be posted here once it is confirmed.
Submission link
Tutorial Program
The tutorial introduces the Vortex microarchitecture and its full software stack, then moves into hands-on exercises on the simulator and FPGA. The program below follows the structure of recent editions and will be finalized closer to the event.
| Duration | Session |
|---|---|
| 20 min | Introduction and GPU background |
| 60 min | Vortex microarchitecture and software stack |
| 20 min | VOLT: compiling OpenCL/CUDA for Vortex |
| 20 min | Q&A session |
| 20 min | Coffee break |
| 40 min | Tutorial assignments / hands-on exercises |
| 60 min | Vortex Workshop presentations |
All slides, assignments, and setup instructions are published in the tutorial repository ahead of the event.
Organizing Committee
General Chairs
Web Chair
The full committee for 2026 will be confirmed here.
Contact
For questions about submissions to the Vortex Workshop, email vortex_submission@groups.gatech.edu. For general questions about the tutorial or the project, email vortexgpu@cc.gatech.edu or join the mailing list.