Call for Workshops/Tutorials:

Vortex Workshop @ MICRO 2026

Abstract or Paper Registration Deadline
September 6, 2026
Final Submission Deadline
September 6, 2026

2026 Vortex Workshop (in conjunction with Vortex Tutorial)
Sunday, November 1, 2026
Co-located with MICRO 2026
Athens, Greece

Website: https://vortexgpgpu.github.io/micro2026.html

The Vortex Workshop aims to bring together Vortex developers, contributors, and users from academia and industry to discuss Vortex-related research. The Vortex Tutorial will be held in conjunction with the workshop, providing an introduction to Vortex and its use in research and teaching. The workshop will offer an opportunity to share ongoing efforts in Vortex development or research using Vortex, thereby fostering the Vortex and broader open-source GPGPU community.

Topics of interest

  • 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 in https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template
References do not count toward the page limit.
Note: Workshop publications do not preclude publishing at future conference venues.

Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vortex26

Important Dates:

  • Paper submission deadline: September 6th, 2026, 23:59 AoE
  • Author notification: September 27th, 2026
  • Workshop date: November 1st, 2026

Organizing Committee:
General Chair: Hyesoon Kim (Georgia Tech), Blaise Tine (UCLA), Jeff Young (Georgia Tech)

Contact Information:
For more information about the submission on Vortex Workshop, please send email to vortex_submission@groups.gatech.edu.
For general questions about the tutorial or the project, please send email to vortexgpu@cc.gatech.edu, or join our mailing list at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1r8E-Yo5NwA45Hi3-kEwte4AxK0mBsYDwgjM6Bul4so0/viewform