The rapid evolution of memory-centric computing technologies—including Compute Express Link (CXL), persistent memory, and disaggregated architectures—is fundamentally reshaping system software design paradigms. The International Workshop on Big Memory (BigMem 2025) establishes a premier forum for researchers and practitioners to explore the challenges and opportunities in managing terabyte-to-petabyte scale memory hierarchies in modern computing systems.

This workshop will focus on three critical research directions: 1) Operating system support for heterogeneous memory systems integrating DRAM, CXL and/or persistent memory; 2) Memory-centric networking technologies enabling efficient remote memory access; and 3) Innovative applications leveraging massive memory capacities. Moreover, we will examine emerging challenges in memory virtualization, coherence protocols, fault tolerance for next-generation memory architectures. The workshop program will feature keynote presentations from leading experts in academia and/or industry, technical papers, and panel discussions.

BigMem 2025 aims to foster cross-disciplinary collaboration between operating system researchers, computer architects, and industry practitioners. By bringing together diverse perspectives, we seek to accelerate innovation in big memory systems and establish this workshop as the leading venue for memory-centric computing research.