Call for Papers: PDSW @ SC 2026
https://www.pdsw.org/
Submitted by Sarah Neuwirth

The 11th International Parallel Data Systems Workshop (PDSW 2026)
https://www.pdsw.org/

We are excited to announce the 11th International Parallel Data Systems Workshop (PDSW’26), to be held in conjunction with SC26: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, in Chicago, IL. PDSW’26 builds upon the rich legacy of its predecessor workshops, the Petascale Data Storage Workshop (PDSW, 2006–2015) and the Data Intensive Scalable Computing Systems (DISCS, 2012–2015) workshop.
The increasing importance of efficient data storage and management continues to drive scientific productivity across traditional simulation-based HPC environments and emerging Cloud, AI/ML, and Big Data analysis frameworks. Challenges are compounded by the rapidly expanding volumes of experimental and observational data, the growing disparity between computational and storage hardware performance, and the rise of novel data-driven algorithms in machine learning. This workshop aims to advance research and development by addressing the most pressing challenges in large-scale data storage and processing.
We invite the community to contribute original research manuscripts that introduce and evaluate novel algorithms or architectures, share significant scientific case studies or workloads, or assess the reproducibility of previously published work. We emphasize the importance of community collaboration for problem identification, workload capture, solution interoperability, standardization, and shared tools. Authors are encouraged to provide comprehensive experimental environment details (software versions, benchmark configurations, etc.) to promote transparency and facilitate collaborative progress.

Important Dates
Paper Submissions due: July 31st, 2026, 11:59 PM AoE
AD due: August 7th, 2026, 11:59 PM AoE
Paper Notification: Sep 4th, 2026, 11:59 PM AoE
Camera ready due: Sep 25th, 2026, 11:59 PM AoE
Final AD/AE due: Sep 25th, 2026, 11:59 PM AoE
Workshop day: Monday, Nov 16th, 2026 (all day)

Submissions website: https://submissions.supercomputing.org/

Topics of Interest

• Scalable Architectures: Distributed data storage, archival, and virtualization.
• New Data Processing Models and Algorithms: Application of innovative data processing models and algorithms for parallel computing and analysis.
• Performance Analysis: Benchmarking, resource management, and workload studies.
• Cloud and Container-Based Models: Enabling cloud and container-based frameworks for large-scale data analysis.
• Storage Technologies: Adaptation to emerging hardware and computing models.
• Data Integrity: Techniques to ensure data integrity, availability, reliability, and fault tolerance.
• Programming Models and Frameworks: Big data solutions for data-intensive computing.
• Hybrid Cloud Data Processing: Integration of hybrid cloud and on-premise data processing.
• Cloud-Specific Opportunities: Data storage and transit opportunities specific to cloud computing.
• Storage System Programmability: Enhancing programmability in storage systems.
• Data Reduction Techniques: Filtering, compression, and reduction techniques for large-scale data.
• File and Metadata Management: Parallel file systems, metadata management at scale.
• In-Situ and In-Transit Processing: Integrating computation into the memory and storage hierarchy for in-situ and in-transit data processing.
• Alternative Storage Models: Object stores, key-value stores, and other data storage models.
• Productivity Tools: Tools for data-intensive computing, data mining, and knowledge discovery.
• Data Movement: Managing data movement between compute and data-intensive components.
• Cross-Cloud Data Management: Efficient data management across different cloud environments.
• AI-enhanced Systems: Storage system optimization and data analytics using machine learning.
• New Memory and Storage Systems: Innovative techniques and performance evaluation for new memory and storage systems.
• AI and Agentic related data management: tools and techniques necessary to support AI workloads and Agentic AI data analytics for online decision making.

Template and Submission
– A full paper up to 6 pages in length, excluding references, acknowledgements, and AD/AE appendices. Once anonymization is removed for camera ready submission, these limits must still be met. Please make sure that author names fit within the 6-page limit as well even though the submission should be double-anonymized.
– Artifact Description (AD) Appendix is mandatory and Artifact Evaluation (AE) Appendix is optional.
– Papers must adhere to the IEEE conference proceeding template available at: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates
– Papers will be reviewed double-blind. Author names and affiliations should NOT be included in the submitted paper.
– Submit your papers by July 31st, 2026, 11:59 PM AoE at https://submissions.supercomputing.org/

Reproducibility Initiative
Aligned with the SC26 Reproducibility Initiative (https://sc26.supercomputing.org/program/papers/reproducibility-initiative/), we require detailed and structured artifact descriptions (AD) using the SC26 format (https://github.com/jennfshr/sc26-repro). The AD should include a field for one or more links to data (Zenodo, figshare, etc.) and code (Github, GitLab, Bitbucket, etc.) repositories. For the artifacts that will be placed in the code repository, we encourage authors to follow the PDSW 2026 Reproducibility Addendum (https://www.pdsw.org/pdsw26/PDSW2026ReproducibilityInitiativeAddendum.pdf) on how to structure the artifact, as it will make it easier for the reviewing committee and readers of the paper in the future.

Submissions website: https://submissions.supercomputing.org/

Organization Team
General Chair:
Jay Lofstead, Sandia National Laboratories, USA

Program Co-Chairs:
Sarah Neuwirth, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
Lipeng Wan, Georgia State University, USA

Call for Papers: HASP @ MICRO 2026
https://www.haspworkshop.org/2026/index.html
Submitted by Theodoros Trochatos; Wenjie Xiong; Yanan Guo

Hardware and Architectural Support for Security and Privacy (HASP) 2026
In conjunction with MICRO 2026,
Athens, Greece
Oct. 31, 2026
https://www.haspworkshop.org/2026/index.html

Call for Papers
Security and privacy research focusing on hardware and architecture aspects has become increasingly important. In the era of cloud computing, smart devices, and novel nano-scale devices, practitioners and researchers have to address new challenges and requirements in order to meet the ever-changing landscape of security research and new demands from consumers, enterprises, governments, defense, and other industries.

Topics of Interest
• Secure hardware processor architectures and implementations
• Side-channel attacks, evaluations, and defenses
• Fault injection attacks (e.g., Rowhammer, electromagnetic), evaluations, and defenses
• Hardware support for software security protection (e.g., memory safety)
• Hardware Trojan threat evaluation, detection, and prevention
• Cryptographic hardware design, implementation, and evaluation
• Security simulation, testing, validation, and verification
• Hardware fingerprinting and physically unclonable functions (PUFs)
• Hardware and architectural support for trust management
• Fault-resilient architecture designs
• Hardware-enhanced cloud security
• Commercial trusted execution environment (TEE) systems and security solutions
• Hardware support for secure Internet of Things (IoT) and mobile devices
• Quantum computer security
• Security of emerging architectures, such as analog computing, etc.

Submission Types:

• Regular Paper (7 pages, excluding the bibliography and appendices)
  • Research Paper
  • SoK Paper: Systemization-of-Knowledge papers should concisely, but exhaustively, systematize and conceptualize existing knowledge (similar to SoK papers in S&P conferences, but focusing on hardware and architecture). Titles must use the prefix “SoK Paper:”.
  • Position Paper: Papers should define new problems in hardware or architecture security and privacy topics, supported by facts, evidence, and logical reasoning. Titles must use the prefix “Position Paper:”.
• Short Paper (4 pages, excluding the bibliography and appendices)
  • Short Research Paper: Titles must use the prefix “Short Paper:”.
  • Work-in-Progress (WIP): Titles must use the prefix “WiP:”. WiP papers will not appear in the proceedings, but the title and authors will be listed on the HASP web page as a public record of the presentation.

Submission Information
All submissions must use the double-column ACM ICPS template (LaTeX preferred); please use the ACM Standard template in the usual two-column format. The template can be found at https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. Submissions must be anonymized for double-blind review. Regular paper and short paper submissions must be at most 7 or 4 pages respectively, excluding the bibliography and appendices. All accepted research papers, SoK papers, and position papers will be included in the ACM Digital Library; WiP papers are not included. The proceedings will be published through ACM ICPS following the open access model. Submission site: https://hasp26.cs.rochester.edu/

Keynote Speakers & Mentoring Program
Keynote speakers will be announced on the workshop website. HASP 2026 will also organize a mentoring program, which provides student attendees opportunities to get connected with senior researchers individually and have conversations about their research and career. Students will be paired with faculty/postdoc mentors for meetings during the workshop/conference, and any follow-ups afterward.

Important Dates
• Submission Deadline: Aug. 10, 2026 (AoE)
• Notification of Acceptance: Sep. 16, 2026
• Camera-Ready Version: Oct. 1, 2026
• Physical Workshop: With MICRO 2026, Athens

Program Chairs
• Wenjie Xiong, Virginia Tech, USA
• Yanan Guo, University of Rochester, USA
• Theodoros Trochatos, Yale University, USA

Call for Papers: Composable Heterogeneous Architecture for Scalable Machine Learning (CHASM) Workshop @ MICRO’26
https://sites.google.com/view/chasm-micro26/home
Submitted by Tom St. John

Composable Heterogeneous Architecture for Scalable Machine Learning (CHASM) Workshop
Co-located with MICRO 2026
https://sites.google.com/view/chasm-micro26/home
November 1, 2026

The scale and complexity of modern artificial intelligence workloads, particularly the rise of agentic AI and multi-modal foundational models, have outpaced the capabilities of monolithic compute nodes.  As the industry scales, the future of AI infrastructure relies on the effective disaggregation of workloads across heterogeneous hardware.

The CHASM workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from computer architecture, systems software, and machine learning to address the critical bottlenecks in disaggregated AI.  We seek to explore the full stack of challenges from hardware-level interconnects and memory pooling to the systems software required to compile, orchestrate, and verify highly dynamic execution graphs across heterogeneous accelerators.

• Systems Software and Compilation
  Compilation frameworks and intermediate representations for disaggregated, heterogeneous environments
  Compilation, scheduling, and runtime orchestration of agentic AI workloads as dynamic execution graphs
  Formal verification, debugging, and equivalence checking for distributed tensor algebra and parallel execution
  Online adaptation, test-time training, and adaptive inference compute in deployed agentic AI systems on disaggregated infrastructure
• Architecture and Hardware
  Architectures for scalable memory disaggregation and pooling in AI clusters
  High-performance interconnects and networking protocols tailored for heterogeneous accelerator communication
  Hardware-software co-design for composable AI systems
  
• Characterization and Evaluation
  Characterization of agentic, multi-modal, and tool-augmented Ai workloads on heterogeneous systems
  Marginal cost-efficiency analysis and performance benchmarking of contemporary AI accelerators in distributed topologies
  Novel simulation and evaluation methodologies for disaggregated datacenter architectures
  Telemetry, profiling, and bottleneck analysis in large-scale heterogeneous AI deployments

Submission Guidelines
We solicit both full papers (8-10 pages) and short/position papers (4-6 pages). Submissions are double-blinded. The page limit includes figures, tables, and appendices, but excludes references. Please use standard LaTeX or Word ACM templates. All submissions will need to be made via EasyChair (link) . Each submission will be reviewed by at least three reviewers from the program committee. Papers will be reviewed for novelty, quality, technical strength, and relevance to the workshop.

Call for Papers: HotStorage @ SOSP 2026
https://www.hotstorage.org/2026/index.html
Submitted by Zeren Yang

8th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage ’26)
September 28th and 29th, 2026
Prague, Czechia,
co-located with SOSP 2026

The workshop is sponsored by ACM in cooperation with USENIX, and its proceedings will appear in the ACM Digital Library.

The HotStorage workshop provides a forum for cutting-edge storage research, a place where academic researchers and industry practitioners can discuss new opportunities and challenges in storage technology. Submissions should propose new research directions, explore non-traditional approaches, or report on noteworthy or counterintuitive learnings and experience in emerging areas. Submissions will be judged on their originality, technical merit, topical relevance, and the likelihood of leading to insightful discussions that will influence future storage systems design and applications.

In keeping with the goals of the HotStorage workshop, the review process will favor submissions that are forward-looking and open-ended. If you are only a couple of months away from submitting to FAST, NSDI, EuroSys, VLDB, OSDI, SOSP, ASPLOS, SoCC, etc. you are probably already past the sweet spot for HotStorage. If you have a forward-looking or unorthodox idea or new research, and some evidence or early working system to support your view, but still have open questions, please consider bringing your work to HotStorage. The program committee will also welcome position papers that solicit discussion on controversial topics, introduce emerging methods and paradigms, or call out for new research directions.