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38th International Conference on Scalable Scientific Data Management

August 12–13, 2026 — San Diego, California

Venue: SDSC, UC San Diego

Abstract submission: May 10, 2026 AOE

Paper submission deadline: May 10, 2026 AOE (Firm)

Notification: Jun 14, 2026

Poster submission deadline: Jul 10, 2026 AOE

Camera-Ready Deadline: Jul 7, 2026 AoE

San Diego Supercomputer Center

UC San Diego

The Ohio State University

The HDF Group

Program

Wednesday, August 12

Time Session
10:30 – 11:00 Registration, welcome, and coffee
11:00 – 12:30 Paper Session: Performance and Infrastructure for Scientific Data Systems (25 min each)
  Session chair: Radita Liam
  • HORATIO: Bridging Management and Analysis of Traces at Scale
  • BioWeaver: Adaptive Workflow Orchestration for Biomedical Data Integration with Progressive Deep Web Exploration
  • SetGo: Metadata Readiness for Scientific AI Datasets
12:30 – 2:00 Lunch
2:00 – 5:30 Safe-OSE Workshop (with a break)
6:30 – 8:30 Dinner (optional, pay your own): 1) Taco Stand, 2) Aqua Mare Cucina Italiana

Thursday, August 13

Time Session
8:30 – 9:00 Registration, breakfast, and welcome
9:00 – 10:30 Paper Session: Intelligent Scientific Data Management (25 min each)
  Session chair: Ray Andrew
  • A Seed for Privacy - semi-automatic privacy-revealing data detection in databases and data streams
  • On the Impact of Interference from Concurrent Jobs on Checkpointing Performance
  • Managing Time in Atemporal Labeled Property Graph Engines: Trade-offs in Representation Strategies
10:30 – 10:40 Poster lightning talks (5 posters, 1–2 min each)
10:40 – 11:30 Group picture, coffee break, and poster session
11:30 – 12:30 Keynote: Reimagining AI Systems for Science through the Lens of Data Systems (Arun Kumar, UC San Diego)
12:30 – 1:00 Best paper presentation: Secure Data Compression Empowered by Computational Storage
1:00 – 2:00 Lunch
2:00 – 3:30 Paper Session: Scalable Storage and Data Access Systems (25 min each)
  Session chair: Jae-Seung Yeom
  • WADO: A Distributed WORM Storage Service for Asynchronous Data Operations
  • Aligning Storage Benchmark Metrics with Application-Level Performance
  • Label-Balanced Graph Index for Filtered Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search with Low-Frequency Labels
3:30 – 3:40 Closing remarks and SSDBM 2027 announcement
3:40 – 4:00 HPC Gelato

The poster session takes place Thursday (August 13). Graduate students presenting posters are encouraged to apply for the NSF-sponsored SSDBM Student Travel Award, which provides up to $1500 toward travel, accommodation, and meal expenses.

Workshops

Safe-OSE Workshop

A half-day workshop organized by the NSF Safe-OSE (Safety, Security, and Privacy of Open-Source Ecosystems) team will be held on Wednesday, August 12, 2026 (afternoon, 2:00 – 5:30 PM with a break).

See the Safe-OSE Workshop page for details.