State Access
Modeling, observability, bottleneck diagnosis, locality, and topology-aware execution.
ACM SIGOPS ATC 2026 Workshop
State Management in Modern Parallel and Distributed Systems
A focused forum for systems researchers and practitioners working on state access, state-aware execution, migration, reuse, and memory-centric infrastructure.
- Date
- Nov 15, 2026
- Format
- Half day
- Location
- Hong Kong
Why StateSys
State has become the critical systems resource.
Modern services increasingly derive performance, efficiency, and service quality from how they organize, access, schedule, evolve, migrate, and reuse shared or long-lived state. StateSys 2026 brings these conversations together across cloud runtimes, data systems, storage stacks, serverless platforms, stream processing, graph systems, and AI serving infrastructure.
Workshop Date
Sunday, November 15, 2026
Co-located With
ACM SIGOPS ATC 2026
Duration
Half-day workshop
Status
Important dates to be announced
Call for Papers
Original research, system experience, position papers, and emerging ideas.
We invite submissions related to state management as a first-class systems problem. We especially welcome work that bridges foundational systems questions with emerging production settings such as large-model inference serving, retrieval-augmented services, and memory-centric cloud systems.
Submission details: deadlines, submission site, page limits, and
proceedings information will be announced after workshop confirmation.
| Paper submission deadline | To be announced |
|---|---|
| Author notification | To be announced |
| Camera-ready deadline | To be announced |
| Workshop | November 15, 2026 |
30-50
expected participants
4-6
paper presentations
1
keynote and panel
Topics
Systems problems where state is the center of gravity.
Runtime Control
Scheduling, concurrency control, recovery, consistency, elasticity, and reconfiguration.
Memory Hierarchies
KV/state placement, tiered caching, cache reuse, and cross-layer optimization.
State Evolution
Online updates, long-lived maintenance, migration, and reuse across requests or tasks.
AI Infrastructure
LLM serving, KV cache reuse, retrieval-augmented systems, and memory-centric inference.
Methodology
Benchmarks, workload characterization, evaluation practice, and reusable artifacts.
Program
A discussion-forward half-day workshop.
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Keynote
Invited talk from a leading researcher or practitioner in stateful systems.
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Paper Session
Selected research talks and experience reports from academia and industry.
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Panel
Moderated discussion on state as a unifying abstraction across systems domains.
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Closing Forum
Open benchmarks, interfaces, artifacts, and future community directions.
Official Listing
Designed to sit cleanly behind the ATC workshop page.
StateSys 2026
State Management in Modern Parallel and Distributed Systems
- Date
- November 15, 2026
- Venue
- Hyatt Regency Hong Kong, Sha Tin
- Contact
- shuhao_zhang@hust.edu.cn
Organizers
Organized by systems researchers across HUST, ECNU, and RUC.
Shuhao Zhang
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
shuhao_zhang@hust.edu.cnXiaofei Liao
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
xfliao@hust.edu.cnXuchen
East China Normal University
cxu@dase.ecnu.edu.cnFeng Zhang
Renmin University of China
fengzhang@ruc.edu.cnVenue
Co-located with ACM SIGOPS ATC 2026 in Hong Kong.
StateSys 2026 is planned as a half-day workshop on November 15, 2026, before the main ATC conference. ATC 2026 runs November 15-18, 2026 at Hyatt Regency Hong Kong, Sha Tin.
ATC 2026
Hyatt Regency Hong Kong, Sha Tin
Conference website