CGO 2026
Sat 31 January - Wed 4 February 2026 Sydney, Australia
co-located with HPCA/CGO/PPoPP/CC 2026

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Tue 3 Feb 2026 12:30 - 12:50 at Bronte - Profiling / Instrumentation Chair(s): Mircea Trofin

The increasing complexity and diversity of hardware accelerators in modern computing systems demand flexible, low-overhead program analysis tools. We present PASTA, a low-overhead and modular Program AnalysiS Tool Framework for Accelerators. PASTA abstracts over low-level profiling APIs and diverse deep learning frameworks, offering users a unified interface to capture and analyze runtime events at multiple levels. Its extensible design enables researchers and practitioners to rapidly prototype custom tools with minimal overhead. We demonstrate the utility of PASTA by developing several analysis tools, including tools for deep learning workload characterization and UVM optimization. Through extensive evaluations on mainstream deep learning workloads tested on NVIDIA and AMD GPUs under both single- and multi-GPU scenarios, we demonstrate PASTA’s broad applicability. On NVIDIA GPUs, we further show that PASTA provides detailed performance insights with significantly lower overhead (up to 1.3×10^4 faster) than conventional analysis tools, thanks to its GPU-accelerated backend. PASTA strikes a practical balance between usability, extensibility, and efficiency, making it well-suited for modern accelerator-based computing environments.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Tue 3 Feb

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11:30 - 12:50
Profiling / InstrumentationMain Conference at Bronte
Chair(s): Mircea Trofin Google
11:30
20m
Talk
TRACE4J: A Lightweight, Flexible, and Insightful Performance Tracing Tool for Java
Main Conference
Haide He UC Merced, Pengfei Su University of California, Merced
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11:50
20m
Talk
Proton: Towards Multi-level, Adaptive Profiling for Triton
Main Conference
Keren Zhou George Mason University, Tianle Zhong University of Virginia, Hao Wu George Mason University, Jihyeong Lee George Mason University, Yue Guan University of California at San Diego, Yufei Ding University of California at Santa Barbara, Corbin Robeck Meta, Yuanwei Fang Meta, Jeff Niu OpenAI, Philippe Tillet OpenAI
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12:10
20m
Talk
On the Precision of Dynamic Program Fingerprints Based on Performance Counters
Main Conference
Anderson Faustino da Silva State University of Maringá, Sergio Queiroz de Medeiros Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Marcelo Borges Nogueira Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Jeronimo Castrillon TU Dresden, Germany, Fernando Magno Quintão Pereira Federal University of Minas Gerais
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12:30
20m
Talk
PASTA: A Modular Program Analysis Tool Framework for Accelerators
Main Conference
Mao Lin University of California Merced, Hyeran Jeon University of California, Merced, Keren Zhou George Mason University
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