ADMS 2025
Sixteenth International Workshop on Accelerating Analytics and Data Management Systems Using Modern Processor and Storage Architectures
 

In conjunction with VLDB 2025
Monday, September 1, 2025
 
 
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Workshop Overview

The objective of this one-day workshop is to investigate opportunities in accelerating analytics workloads and data management systems. Over the years, the scope of database analytics has changed substantially, beginning with traditional OLAP, data warehousing, ETL, to HTAP, Streaming/Real-time Processing, Edge/IoT, and finally to machine learning and deep learning workloads such as Generative AI or Vector/semantic databases. Increasing use of Large Language Models(LLMs) for as a source for knowledge extraction for various end uses (e.g., in an AI assistant or Agentic system), creates new opportunities for database systens. At the same time, hardware and software capabilities have seen tremendous improvements. The workshop aims to explore how database analytics can be accelerated using modern processors (e.g., commodity and specialized Multi-core, Many-core, chiplets, GPUs, and FPGAs), processing systems (e.g., hybrid, massively-distributed clusters, and cloud based distributed computing infrastructure), networking infrastructures (e.g., RDMA over InfiniBand), memory and storage systems (e.g., storage-class Memories like SSDs, active memories, NVRAM, and Phase-change Memory), multi-core and distributed programming paradigms like CUDA/OpenCL, MPI/OpenMP, and MapReduce/Spark, and integration with data-science/deep-learning frameworks such as Sklearn, TensorFlow, or PyTorch. Exploratory topics such as DNA-based storage or quantum algorithms are also within the preview of the ADMS workshop. The intent of the ADMS workshop is to bring together people from diverse fields such as computer architecture, high-performance computing, systems, and programming languages to address key functionality and scalability problems in data management.

The current data management scenario is characterized by the following trends: traditional OLTP and OLAP/data warehousing systems are being used for increasing complex workloads (e.g., integration of various AI technologies, Petabyte of data, complex queries under real-time constraints, etc.); applications are becoming far more distributed, often consisting of different data processing components; non-traditional domains such as bio-informatics, social networking, mobile computing, sensor applications, gaming are generating growing quantities of data of different types; economical and energy constraints are leading to greater consolidation and virtualization of resources; and analyzing vast quantities of complex data is becoming more important than traditional transactional processing.

At the same time, there have been tremendous improvements in the CPU and memory technologies. Newer processors are more capable in the compute and memory capabilities, are power-efficient, and are optimized for multiple application domains. Commodity systems are increasingly using multi-core processors with more than 6 cores per chip and enterprise-class systems are using processors with at least 32 cores per chip. Specialized multi-core processors such as the GPUs have brought the computational capabilities of supercomputers to cheaper commodity machines. On the storage front, FLASH-based solid state devices (SSDs) are becoming smaller in size, cheaper in price, and larger in capacity. Exotic technologies like Phase-change memory are on the near-term horizon and can be game-changers in the way data is stored and processed.

In spite of the trends, currently there is limited usage of these technologies in data management domain. Naive exploitation of multi-core processors or SSDs often leads to unbalanced systems. It is, therefore, important to evaluate applications in a holistic manner to ensure effective utilization of CPU and memory resources. This workshop aims to understand impact of modern hardware technologies on accelerating core components of data management workloads. Specifically, the workshop hopes to explore the interplay between overall system design, core algorithms, query optimization strategies, programming approaches, performance modelling and evaluation, etc., from the perspective of data management applications.

Topics of Interest

The suggested topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

  • Hardware and System Issues in Domain-specific Accelerators
  • New Programming Methodologies for Data Management Problems on Modern Hardware
  • Query Processing for Hybrid Architectures
  • Large-scale I/O-intensive (Big Data) Applications
  • Parallelizing/Accelerating Machine Learning/Deep Learning Workloads
  • Accelerating training, inference, and storage of Large Language Models for Generative AI
  • Autonomic Tuning for Data Management Workloads on Hybrid Architectures
  • Algorithms for Accelerating Multi-modal Multi-tiered Systems
  • Applications of GPUs and other data-parallel accelerators
  • Energy Efficient Software-Hardware Co-design for Data Management Workloads
  • Parallelizing non-traditional (e.g., graph mining) workloads
  • Algorithms and Performance Models for modern Storage Sub-systems
  • Exploitation of specialized ASICs
  • Novel Applications of Low-Power Processors and FPGAs
  • Exploitation of Transactional Memory for Database Workloads
  • Exploitation of Active Technologies (e.g., Active Memory, Active Storage, and Networking)
  • New Benchmarking Methodologies for Accelerated Workloads
  • Applications of HPC Techniques for Data Management Workloads
  • Acceleration in the Cloud Environments
  • Accelerating Data Science/Machine Learning Workloads
  • Exploratory topics such as Generative AI, DNA-storage, Quantum Technologies

Organization

Workshop Co-Chairs

       For questions regarding the workshop please send email to contact@adms-conf.org.

Program Committee

  • Francesco Fusco, IBM Research, Zurich
  • Wentao Huang, National University of Singapore
  • Julia Spindler, TUM
  • Selim Tekin, Georgia Tech
  • Hubert Mohr-Daurat, Imperial College, London
  • Rathijit Sen, Microsoft
  • Hong Min, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
  • Viktor Sanca, Oracle
  • Subhadeep Sarkar, Boston University

Important Dates

  • Paper Submission: Monday, 2 June, 2025, 9 am EST (EXTENDED)
  • Notification of Acceptance: Friday, 27 June, 2025
  • Camera-ready Submission: Friday, 18 July, 2025
  • Workshop Date: Monday, 1 September, 2025

Submission Instructions

Submission Site 

All submissions will be handled electronically via EasyChair.

Publication and Formatting Guidelines 

The ADMS'25 proceedings will be published as a part of the official VLDB Workshop Proceedings and indexed via DBLP.

We will use the same document templates as the VLDB conference. You can find them here.

It is the authors' responsibility to ensure that their submissions adhere strictly to the VLDB format detailed here. In particular, it is not allowed to modify the format with the objective of squeezing in more material. Submissions that do not comply with the formatting detailed here will be rejected without review. 

As per the VLDB submission guidelines, the paper length for a full paper is limited to 12 pages, excluding bibliography. However, shorter papers (at least 6 pages of content) are encouraged as well.