HardBD & Active'22


HardBD & Active'26

Joint International Workshop on Big Data Management on Emerging Hardware
and Data Management on Virtualized Active Systems

To be Sponsored by and Held in Conjunction with ICDE 2026

May 4, 2026 in Montréal, Canada


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  Description

HardBD & Active'26 will be a one-day workshop co-located with ICDE'26. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers, practitioners, system administrators, and others interested to share their perspectives on exploiting new hardware technologies for data-intensive systems, and to discuss and identify future directions and challenges in this area. The workshop aims at providing a forum for academia and industry to exchange ideas through research and position papers.

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  Topics

 Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

  • Data Management on New Hardware Technologies (e.g., GPUs, FPGAs, DPUs, ASICs, SSDs, NVMs, RDMA, CXL, Quantum as accelerators)
  • Main Memory Data Management (e.g. Multi-Core, Cache, SIMD)
  • Data Management in Software-Hardware Co-design Architectures
  • Distributed Data Management Utilizing New Network Technologies and/or New System Platforms (e.g., Disaggregated Storage, Disaggregated Memory)
  • Novel Applications of New Hardware Technologies in Query Processing, Transaction Processing, Big Data Systems, or AI systems
  • Benchmarking, Performance Models, and/or Tuning of Data-Intensive Workloads on New Hardware Technologies

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  Author and Submission Guidelines

We welcome submissions of original, unpublished research papers that are not being considered for publication in any other forum. This includes early-stage or in-progress work targeting future publication at leading database conferences or journals.

Papers should be prepared in the IEEE format and submitted as a single PDF file. The paper length should not exceed 6 pages excluding the bibliography.

The submission site is https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/HardBDActive2026.
(Note: The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.)

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  Important Dates


Paper submission: January 19, 2026 (Monday) 11:59:00 PM PT
Notification of acceptance: February 23, 2026 (Monday)
Camera-ready copies: March 9, 2026 (Monday)
Workshop: May 4, 2026 (Monday)

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  Organizers


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  PC Members


  • Amine Mhedhbi, Polytechnique MontrĂ©al
  • Bingsheng He, National University of Singapore
  • Danica Porobic, Oracle
  • Dixin Tang, University of Texas, Austin
  • Kai-Uwe Sattler, TU Ilmenau
  • Thamir Qadah, Umm Al-Qura University
  • Tianzheng Wang, Simon Fraser University
  • Wolfgang Lehner, TU Dresden
  • Xuan Zhou, East China Normal University

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