Program

DIMES'26 will take place in Room Kepler at Clarion Congress Hotel Prague.

The proceedings will become available in the ACM Digital Library soon.

Schedule

08:30 am – Welcome & Session I: Memory Tiering: Policies & Management
(Chair: TBD)

• Regional Policies for Memory Tiering Systems
  Hayden Coffey (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Sujay Yadalam (The University of Texas at Austin); Ashwin Poduval, Vinay Banakar, Shivaram Venkataraman, Michael Swift (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
• PHASE: A Platform for Hardware and Software Evaluation of Memory Tiering
  Dikla Tzafrir, Shaurya Patel (University of British Columbia); Joel Nider (University of British Columbia and UnifabriX); Alexandra (Sasha) Fedorova (University of British Columbia and MongoDB)
• TierSizer: Counterfactual Reasoning for DRAM Sizing in Tiered Memory Systems
  Sujay Yadalam, Saarth Deshpande, Divyanshu Saxena, Venkat Arun, Neeraja Yadwadkar, Aditya Akella (The University of Texas at Austin)

10:00 am – Coffee Break

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10:30 am – Session II: Expanding the Memory Hierarchy
(Chair: TBD)

• To Tier, or Not? Evaluating Tiered Memory Systems on the Basis of Cost
  Ashwin Poduval (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Sujay Yadalam (UT Austin); Michael Swift (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
• RDMA vs. SSD Swap: A Preliminary Study through the Lens of Application Performance
  Yuben Yang (University of Sydney); Baptiste Lepers (Inria); Willy Zwaenepoel (University of Sydney)
• The Kernel’s Write: Application Read-Only Memory
  Hui Sub Shim, Katherine Mohr (Stanford University); Philip Levis (Stanford University and Google)

12:00 pm – Lunch Break

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1:30 pm – Session III: Heterogeneous & Shared Memory Systems
(Chair: TBD)

• Analysis of shared memory between CPUs and GPUs
  Silvia R. Alcaraz, Sven Hepkema, Vasilis Mageirakos, Jonas Dann, Gustavo Alonso (ETH Zürich)
• hDAGs: A Directed Acyclic Graph Representation for Scheduling Tasks on Heterogeneous Hardware
  Marcel Lütke Dreimann, Birte Friesel, Lilith Lenze, Olaf Spinczyk (Universität Osnabrück)
• Shadix: A Distributed Message Broker Leveraging Shared Disaggregated CXL Memory
  Julian Hackenberg, Lukas Hagen, Marcel Weisgut, Florian Schmeller, Tilmann Rabl (Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam)

3:00 pm – Coffee Break

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3:30 pm – Session IV: Programming Interfaces for Memory Systems
(Chair: TBD)

• McZero: Memory-Controller–Supported Page Zeroing with LPDDR6 Metadata
  Alexander Halbuer, Illia Ostapyshyn (Leibniz Universität Hannover); Nils Wilbert, Derek Christ (University of Würzburg); Matthias Jung (Universität Würzburg and Fraunhofer IESE); Daniel Lohmann (Leibniz Universität Hannover)
• Hints for Program-Driven Control of Hybrid Volatile/Non-Volatile Caches
  Stefan Meißner, Stefan Wildermann, Neele Peter (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg); Nils Wilbert (University of Würzburg); Jürgen Teich (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
• Speeding up FaaS Warm Starts with Memory Restoration Templates
  Aravinda Prasad, Sreenivas Subramoney, Sandeep Kumar, Antti Kervinen (Intel)

5:00 pm – Closing Remarks