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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

This is a tentative program and is subject to change. Speakers, session chairs, paper titles, and room assignments will be filled in as they are confirmed.

Wednesday, August 12

Time Session
10:30 – 11:00 Welcome and registration (coffee and pastries)
11:00 – 12:00 Poster lightning talks, poster competition announcement, and community discussion
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 4:30 Safe-OSE Workshop (organized by The HDF Group)
5:30 – 6:30 Poster session
6:30 – 7:30 Buffet dinner and reception

Thursday, August 13

Time Session
8:00 – 9:00 Registration and breakfast
9:00 – 10:30 Paper Session 1
    • HORATIO: Bridging Management and Analysis of Traces at Scale
    • Secure Data Compression Empowered by Computational Storage
    • SetGo: Metadata Readiness for Scientific AI Datasets
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Paper Session 2
    • 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
12:30 – 2:00 Lunch
2:00 – 3:00 Keynote: Reimagining AI Systems for Science through the Lens of Data Systems (Arun Kumar, UC San Diego)
3:00 – 3:30 Best paper presentation (TBD)
3:30 – 4:00 Coffee Break
4:00 – 5:30 Paper Session 3
    • A Seed for Privacy - semi-automatic privacy-revealing data detection in databases and data streams
    • BioWeaver: Adaptive Workflow Orchestration for Biomedical Data Integration with Progressive Deep Web Exploration
    • On the Impact of Interference from Concurrent Jobs on Checkpointing Performance
    • Managing Time in Atemporal Labeled Property Graph Engines: Trade-offs in Representation Strategies
5:30 – 5:40 Closing remarks and SSDBM 2027 announcement

The poster session takes place Wednesday evening (August 12). Graduate students presenting posters are encouraged to apply for the NSF-sponsored SSDBM Student Travel Award, which provides up to $1200 toward travel, accommodation, and meal expenses.

The schedule may be subject to last-minute changes; please check back for updates as the conference approaches.

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 (1:00 – 4:30 PM).

See the Safe-OSE Workshop page for details.