Introduction

Disaggregation is an emerging compute paradigm that splits existing monolithic servers into a number of consolidated single-resource pools that communicate over a fast interconnect. This model decouples individual hardware resources, including tightly coupled ones such as processors and memory, and enables the composition of logical compute platforms with flexible and dynamic hardware configurations.

The concept of disaggregation is driven by various recent trends in computation. From an application perspective, the increasing importance of data analytics and machine learning workloads in HPC centers brings unprecedented need for memory capacity, which is in stark contrast with the growing imbalance in the peak compute-to-memory capacity ratio of traditional system board based server platforms where memory modules are co-located with processors. Meanwhile, traditional simulation workloads leave memory underutilized. At the hardware front, the proliferation of heterogeneous, special purpose computing elements promotes the need for configurable compute platforms, while at the same time, the increasing maturity of optical interconnects raises the prospects of better distance independence in networking infrastructure.

The workshop intends to explore various aspects of resource disgregation, composability and their implications for high performance computing, both in dedicated HPC centers as well as in cloud environments. RESDIS aims to bring together researchers and industrial practitioners to foster discussion, collaboration, mutual exchange of knowledge and experience related to future disaggregated systems.

The RESDIS program committee solicits original, high-quality submissions of unpublished results related to the theme of resource disaggregation and composable systems. Topics of interest include, but not limited to:


The workshop proceedings will be published electronically via the IEEE Computer Society Digital Library. Submitted manuscripts must use the proceedings templates at: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html. Submissions must be between 5 and 8 pages, including references and figures. Prospective authors should submit their papers in PDF format through Linklings’ submission site:

Submissions Closed

Workshop Chairs

Program Committee