ASTRA-sim Tutorial at ISCA 2026 (Saturday, June 27)

[Won, William]

AMD General

Hi everyone,

I am co-organizing an ASTRA-sim tutorial at ISCA 2026. We cordially invite you to attend the ASTRA-sim tutorial and look forward to meeting you at the conference!

It will take place in Raleigh, NC, on Saturday, June 27. This is the first time that the ASTRA-sim tutorial is being offered as a full-day tutorial.

• In the morning session, the organizers will kickstart the tutorial with an introduction to distributed machine learning, followed by presenting ASTRA-sim's workload, system, and network layers. Specifically, we will mainly cover new features introduced to ASTRA-sim: including GPU modeling, custom collective support, ns-3/HTSim integration, and InfraGraph.
• For the afternoon session, we will have many invited talks on the use cases and interesting insights around the ASTRA-sim community. Topics include memory tier modeling using ASTRA-sim, energy consumption modeling via ASTRA-sim, multi-tenant job scheduling, and more talks to be announced.

Please find more information on our tutorial website:

• https://astra-sim.github.io/tutorials/isca-2026

Also, the early-bird registration for ISCA ends on May 26 (a week from now). Please find the link below for more information. We hope this helps with your planning:

• https://iscaconf.org/isca2026/attend/register.php

Best regards,

Will

on behalf of ASTRA-sim tutorial organizers:

Will Won, Brad Beckmann, Tuan Ta (AMD)

Jinsun Yoo, Tushar Krishna (Georgia Tech)