Fourth Workshop on Disruptive Memory Systems (DIMES)

Co-located with the 32nd ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP 2026)
Prague, Czechia, September 29th, 2026


==== Important Dates ====

** Extended deadline: June 5, 2026 **

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Paper/demo submission deadline: June 5, 2026
Acceptance notification: July 10, 2026
Final camera-ready paper due: August 28, 2026
Workshop presentations: September 29, 2026
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==== Call for Contributions ====

New system software is essential for using emerging memory technologies
effectively. Novel memory types, interfaces, and capabilities are
challenging long-held assumptions underlying memory system design and
operation. Instead of traditional volatile, passive, and largely
homogeneous DDR DRAM, future systems will increasingly include
integrated HBM, cost-effective local memory tiers, and disaggregated far
memory. “In-memory” and “near-memory” processing promise low-power
parallel processing that will scale with the amount of active data. New
memory interconnects such as UALink and CXL will enable independently
scaling compute and memory and permit heterogeneous pooling and sharing
of memory between machines.

Beyond lower energy consumption and higher processing power, these
memory innovations also promise to disrupt with lower cost, higher
capacity, or higher reliability. The Workshop on Disruptive Memory
Systems (DIMES) is intended to be a forum to discuss new architectures,
abstractions, and interfaces for system software to enable and exploit
these new memory technologies in future software. The scope of
DIMES covers system software for all computing domains: cloud, HPC,
edge, desktop, mobile and embedded systems.

==== Topics of Interest ====

DIMES focuses on the system software aspects of disruptive memory
technologies. Suggested topics for submissions include all aspects of
system software that are affected by emerging memory technologies in
cloud, HPC, edge, desktop, mobile and embedded systems, and related
domains.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- memory system design
- memory management abstractions
- operating system support for memory management
- memory-centric programming models
- emerging memory technologies
- memory-intensive applications
- evaluation of memory-centric systems

We encourage authors to submit papers on concepts, early-stage work, and
demos of prototype systems.


==== Submissions ====

The workshop allows two types of submissions: papers & demos.

Submitted papers must represent original material that is not currently
under review in any other conference or journal, and has not been
previously published. All paper submissions should be written in English
and follow the two-column ACM SIGPLAN article style
(https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template, acmart LaTeX
style with options sigplan,anonymous,10pt). Papers must not exceed the
length of six (6) printed pages plus references using a 10-point font.
The CCS Concepts, Keywords, and ACM Reference Format sections are not
required in submissions.

All demo submissions come in form of an extended abstract with a maximum
length of two (2) printed pages plus references with the same format as
paper submissions. In addition to giving a live demo at the workshop,
demo presenters are required to produce a video. We also encourage
authors of paper submission to optionally present a demo; this does not
require a separate submission of an extended abstract.

Papers and demo abstracts must be submitted in PDF format via the
workshop website. They will be reviewed by the program committee and
evaluated based on technical quality, originality, relevance, and
presentation. Submissions are double-blind: please make sure your
submission is properly anonymized.

Accepted submissions will be published in the ACM Digital Library.[1]
The authors of accepted submissions will be required to sign ACM
copyright release forms.


==== Organization and Contact ====

Michal Friedman (ETH Zürich, CH)
Kimberly Keeton (Google, US)
Marcel Köppen (Osnabrück University, DE)

Mail: organizers@dimes.ws
Web: https://dimes.ws


==== Program Committee ====

Gustavo Alonso, ETH Zürich, CH
Yannis Chronis, ETH Zürich, CH
Thaleia Dimitra Doudali, IMDEA Software Institute, ES
Ada Gavrilovska, Georgia Institute of Technology, US
Michael Giardino, Huawei, CH
Jana Giceva, TU München, DE
Dirk Habich, TU Dresden, DE
Timo Hönig, Ruhr University Bochum, DE
Sanidhya Kashyap, EPFL, CH
Asif Ali Khan, TU Dresden, DE
Phil Levis, Stanford and Google, US
Huaicheng Li, Virginia Tech, US
Tilmann Rabl, Hasso Plattner Institut, University of Potsdam, DE
Michael Swift, University of Wisconsin-Madison, US
Tianzheng Wang, Simon Fraser University, CA
Thomas Willhalm, Intel Deutschland, DE
Emmett Witchel, University of Texas at Austin, US
Willy Zwaenepoel, University of Sydney, AU


[1] Please note that ACM has moved to an Open Access publication model.
Papers with a corresponding author from an ACM Open member institution
will not be subject to Article Processing Charges.