Third Workshop on Disruptive Memory Systems (DIMES)

Co-located with the 31st ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP 2025)
Seoul, Republic of Korea, October 13th, 2025

==== Important Dates ====

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Paper/demo submission deadline: July 18, 2025
Acceptance notification: August 25, 2025
Final camera-ready paper due: September 12, 2025
Workshop presentations: October 13, 2025
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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 both hard- and software.
Instead of just the traditional volatile, passive, and largely
homogeneous DDR DRAM, future systems will increasingly include
integrated HBM, disaggregated far memory, and perhaps NVM. “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 heterogeneous pooling and sharing of
memory first at rack level and eventually at global fabric level.

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 platform 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:
embedded, mobile, desktop/laptop, edge, cloud, and HPC 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.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/, e.g. acmart LaTeX style with
options sigplan,anonymous,10pt). The CCS Concepts, Keywords, and ACM
Reference Format sections are not required in submissions. Papers must
not exceed the length of six (6) printed pages plus references using a
10-point font.

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 the
paper authors to optionally present a demo. This does not require a
separate submission of an extended abstract but is covered by the paper
submission.

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 that your
submissions are properly anonymized.

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

Please submit your papers and demos using our HotCRP site:
https://dimes25.hotcrp.com

==== Topics of Interest ====

DIMES focuses on the system software aspects for disruptive memory
technologies. Suggested topics for submissions include all aspects of
system software that are affected by emerging memory technologies like

- disaggregated memory
- in-/near-memory computing
- high-bandwidth memory
- cache-coherent device memory

in embedded, mobile, desktop/laptop, edge, cloud, and HPC systems, and
related domains.

The topics include, but are not limited to:

- operating system concepts
- application interfaces
- programming models
- energy-aware computing
- distributed computing
- resource placement and allocation
- combined use of different emerging memories

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

==== Organization and Contact ====

Kim Keeton (Google, US)
Christian Dietrich (TU Braunschweig, DE)
Marcel Köppen (University of Osnabrück, DE)

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

==== Program Committee ====

Oana Balmau, McGill University, CA
Antonio Barbalace, University of Edinburgh, GB
Frank Bellosa, KIT, DE
Daniel Berger, Microsoft Azure & University of Washington, US
Jeronimo Castrillon, TU Dresden, DE
Christian Dietrich, TU Braunschweig, DE
Alexandra Fedorova, UBC, CA
Ada Gavrilovska, GATech, US
Kim Keeton, Google, US
Marcel Köppen, Osnabrück University, DE
Wolfgang Lehner, TU Dresden, DE
Alberto Lerner, University of Fribourg, CH
Stanko Novakovic, Google, US
Ivy Bo Peng, KTH, SE
Tilmann Rabl, Hasso Plattner Institut, DE
Michael Swift, University of Wisconsin-Madison, US
Thomas Willhalm, Intel Deutschland, DE
Kan Wu, xAI, US
Suli Yang, Google, US
Willy Zwaenepoel, University of Sydney, AU