NEW THIS MONTH! | Sensys 2009 |
| Title: | 7th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys'09) |
| Abstract Deadline: | 2009-04-01 |
| Submission Deadline: | 2009-04-08 |
| Webpage: | http://sensys.acm.org/2009 |
| Dates: | November, 4-6, 2009 |
| Location: | Berkeley California |
| Contact Email: | peizhang@cmu.edu |
| Synopsis: |
| The 7th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys'09) solicits innovative research papers on the systems issues of networked, embedded sensing and control. The conference brings together academic, industry, and government professionals to a premier single-track, highly selective forum on the design, implementation, and application of sensor networks. Please visit the website for detailed "Call For Papers" |
NEW THIS MONTH! | HotCloud '09 |
| Title: | Usenix Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud '09) |
| Submission Deadline: | 2009-04-15 |
| Webpage: | http://www.usenix.org/event/hotcloud09/ |
| Dates: | June 15, 2009 |
| Location: | San Diego, CA, USA |
| Contact Email: | sambits@us.ibm.com |
| Synopsis: |
| HotCloud '09 seeks to discuss challenges in the Cloud Computing paradigm including the design, implementation, and deployment of virtualized clouds. The workshop provides a forum for academics as well as practitioners in the field to share their experience, leverage each other's perspectives, and identify new and emerging "hot" trends in this area. HotCloud '09 will be co-located with the 2009 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX '09), which will take place June 14.19, 2009. |
IISWC 2009 | |
| Title: | 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization |
| Abstract Deadline: | 2009-04-17 |
| Submission Deadline: | 2009-04-24 |
| Webpage: | http://www.iiswc.org/iiswc2009/index.htm |
| Dates: | October 4-6, 2009 |
| Location: | Austin, TX, USA |
| Contact Email: | onur@cmu.edu |
| Synopsis: |
| IISWC is dedicated to the understanding and characterization of workloads that run on all types of computing systems. New applications and programming paradigms continue to emerge as the diversity and performance of computers increase. Whether they are PDAs, wireless and embedded systems at the low end or massively parallel systems at the high end, the design of future computing machines can be significantly improved if we understand the characteristics of the workloads that are expected to run on them. We solicit papers in all areas related to characterization of computing system workloads. |
MIDDLEWARE 2009 | |
| Title: | The ACM/IFIP/USENIX 10th International Middleware Conference |
| Submission Deadline: | 2009-04-20 |
| Webpage: | http://middleware2009.cs.uiuc.edu |
| Dates: | November 30 - December 4, 2009 |
| Location: | Urbana Champaign, Illinois, USA |
| Contact Email: | riccardo.scandariato@cs.kuleuven.be |
| Synopsis: |
| Following the success of past conferences in this series, the 10th International Middleware Conference will be the premier event for middleware research and technology in 2009. The scope of the conference is the design, implementation, deployment, and evaluation of distributed system platforms and architectures for future computing and communication environments. Highlights of the conference will include a high quality technical program, invited speakers (including Hector Garcia-Molina of Stanford University), an industrial track, poster and demo presentations, a doctoral symposium, and workshops. |
MAMA 2009 - CALL FOR ABSTRACTS | |
| Title: | The Eleventh Workshop on MAthematical performance Modeling and Analysis |
| Submission Deadline: | 2009-05-01 |
| Webpage: | http://conferences.sigmetrics.org/sigmetrics/2009/workshops.shtml |
| Dates: | June, 15, 2009 |
| Location: | Seattle, WA, USA |
| Contact Email: | mss@watson.ibm.com |
| Synopsis: |
| Held in conjunction with SIGMETRICS/Performance 2009 The Eleventh Workshop on MAthematical performance Modeling and Analysis (MAMA 2009) seeks to bring together researchers working on the mathematical, methodological and theoretical aspects of performance analysis, modeling and optimization. It is intended to provide a forum at SIGMETRICS conferences for talks on early research in the more mathematical areas of computer performance analysis. These talks tend to be based on very recent research results (including work in progress) or on new research results that will be otherwise submitted only to a journal (or recently have been submitted to a journal). For more information about the workshop, please contact Mark Squillante (mss@watson.ibm.com). |
NEW THIS MONTH! | GreenMetrics 2009 |
| Title: | GreenMetrics 2009 Workshop (in conjunction with SIGMETRICS/Performance 2009) |
| Submission Deadline: | 2009-05-04 |
| Webpage: | http://www.sigmetrics.org/conferences/sigmetrics/2009/workshops/greenmetrics.shtml |
| Dates: | June 15, 2009 |
| Location: | Seattle, WA, USA |
| Contact Email: | greenmetrics09-chairs-l@mailman.ucalgary.ca |
| Synopsis: |
| This workshop is intended to bring together researchers and practitioners in relevant areas, to exchange technical ideas and experiences on how to lessen the environmental impact of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), or how to utilize ICT to lessen the environmental impact of other sectors. This workshop will serve as a forum for the SIGMETRICS community to apply general measurement, analysis and modeling techniques to this important area. Full call for papers available at http://www.sigmetrics.org/conferences/sigmetrics/2009/workshops/greenmetrics.shtml. |
NEW THIS MONTH! | Advances in Learning for Networking Workshop |
| Title: | In conjunction with SIGMETRICS/Performance 2009 |
| Submission Deadline: | 2009-05-05 |
| Webpage: | http://conferences.sigmetrics.org/sigmetrics/2009/workshops.shtml |
| Dates: | June, 15, 2009 |
| Location: | SEATTLE, WA, USA |
| Contact Email: | cj114@mail.gatech.edu |
| Synopsis: |
| This workshop hopes to stimulate further interest in the interdisciplinary area of learning for networking, facilitating sharing of lessons learned and exploring potential future directions. This workshop is organized for the first time at Sigmetrics, combining knowledge in both learning and networking. The workshop encourages original contributions that address how adaptive learning contributes to the science and applications of networking. Submissions may, for instance, address the following topics: . Networking models, mechanisms and protocols which facilitate and utilize learning to enhance performance. . Approaches that model and learn the knowledge needed for control and management of heterogeneous and large networks. |
NEW THIS MONTH! | Netecon'09 |
| Title: | 2009 Workshop on the Economics of Networked Systems |
| Abstract Deadline: | 2009-05-11 |
| Submission Deadline: | 2009-05-15 |
| Webpage: | http://netecon09.cs.umd.edu |
| Dates: | July 7, 2009 |
| Location: | Stanford, CA, USA |
| Contact Email: | netecon09@cs.umd.edu |
| Synopsis: |
| The NetEcon Workshop aims to promote a cross-disciplinary discussion on the role of incentives in computational and communication systems. It will bring together researchers from a diverse set of areas including systems, theory, distributed computing, artificial intelligence, and economics. The workshop is being held as part of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC'09). |
NEW THIS MONTH! | SBAC-PAD 2009 |
| Title: | 21st INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE AND HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING |
| Submission Deadline: | 2009-05-15 |
| Webpage: | http://regulus.pcs.usp.br/sbac2009/ |
| Dates: | October, 28-31, 2009 |
| Location: | Sao Paulo, Brazil |
| Contact Email: | sbac2009@gmail.com |
| Synopsis: |
| SBAC-PAD is an annual international conference series, the first of which was held 22 years ago, in 1987. Each conference has traditionally presented new developments in high-performance computing, as well as the latest trends in computer architecture. The conference has strong international participation, with submissions from more than dozen countries, and is competitive. Authors are invited to submit original manuscripts on a wide range of high-performance computing areas, including computer architecture, systems software, languages and compilers, algorithms, and applications. The papers must be in English, 8 pages maximum, following the IEEE formatting guidelines. |
NEW THIS MONTH! | NetDB 2009 (co-located with SOSP 2009) |
| Title: | 5th International Workshop on Networking Meets Databases |
| Submission Deadline: | 2009-06-01 |
| Webpage: | http://netdb09.cis.upenn.edu/ |
| Dates: | October 14th, 2009 |
| Location: | Big Sky, MT |
| Contact Email: | ssaroiu@microsoft.com |
| Synopsis: |
| The Workshop on Networking Meets Databases (NetDB 2009) will bring together researchers from the systems and networking community and the database community. Many current research areas, such as cloud computing, datacenter networking, sensor networks, network management, or social networks, raise research problems that lie at the boundary between these two communities. This workshop's goal is to foster an environment in which researchers can discuss ideas that will shape and influence these emerging research areas. This year, NetDB takes a broad view of what constitutes research relevant to both communities. For more information, please visit: http://netdb09.cis.upenn.edu/ |
NEW THIS MONTH! | LADIS 2009 |
| Title: | The 3rd International Workshop on Large Scale Distributed Systems and Middleware (LADIS 2009) |
| Submission Deadline: | 2009-06-05 |
| Webpage: | http://www.cs.cornell.edu/projects/ladis2009 |
| Dates: | October, 10-11, 2009 |
| Location: | Big Sky Resort, Big Sky, MT, USA |
| Contact Email: | hweather@cs.cornell.edu, Doug.Terry@microsoft.com |
| Synopsis: |
| LADIS 2009 will bring together researchers and practitioners in the fields of distributed systems and middleware to discuss the challenges of building massive cloud computing infrastructures. By posing research questions in the context of the largest and most-demanding real-world systems, LADIS serves to catalyze dialog between cloud computing engineers and scalable distributed systems researchers, to open the veil of secrecy that has surrounded many cloud computing architectures, and to increase the potential impact of the best research underway in the systems community. |
NEW THIS MONTH! | HotPower '09 |
| Title: | Workshop on Power Aware Computing and Systems (HotPower '09) |
| Submission Deadline: | 2009-06-08 |
| Webpage: | http://hotpower09.stanford.edu/ |
| Dates: | October 10, 2009 |
| Location: | Big Sky, MT (with SOSP'09) |
| Contact Email: | pal@cs.stanford.edu; partha.ranganathan@hp.com |
| Synopsis: |
| HotPower hopes to provide a forum in which to present the latest research and to debate directions, challenges, and novel ideas about building energy-efficient computing systems. In addition, researchers coming to these issues from fields such as computer architecture, systems and networking, measurement and modeling, language and compiler design, and embedded systems will gain the opportunity to interact with and learn from one another. |
NEW THIS MONTH! | NSDR 2009 |
| Title: | 3rd ACM Workshop on Networked Systems for Developing Regions (NSDR'09) |
| Abstract Deadline: | 2009-06-08 |
| Submission Deadline: | 2009-06-15 |
| Webpage: | http://www.dritte.org/nsdr09 |
| Dates: | October 10th 2009 |
| Location: | Big Sky, Montana, USA |
| Contact Email: | muneeb@princeton.edu |
| Synopsis: |
| More than a billion, less fortunate, people on this planet survive on less than a dollar a day. Technology can help improve their lives. The last decade has seen interest in applying information and communication technologies for global development. Research in this multidisciplinary area, often dubbed ICTD, encounters massive challenges and impacts lives of ordinary poor people. The Workshop on Networked Systems for Developing Regions (NSDR) provides a platform for technical ICTD research; building and deploying real networks and systems in the challenged environments of third world countries. NSDR'09 follows up on two successful workshops hosted with SIGCOMM'07 and SIGCOMM'08. |
NEW THIS MONTH! | HotStorage'09 |
| Title: | Hot topics in storage and file systems |
| Submission Deadline: | 2009-06-15 |
| Webpage: | http://research.microsoft.com/~etheres/hotstorage/ |
| Dates: | October, 11-11, 2009 |
| Location: | Big Sky, Montana |
| Contact Email: | etheres@microsoft.com |
| Synopsis: |
| The workshop will bring together researchers interested in all aspects of file and storage systems design. The increasing volume and variety of digital data, the emergence of new technologies such as solid-state storage, and the need for storage in new environments ranging from mobile devices to mega-scale data centers, make this area both important and challenging. |
NEW THIS MONTH! | ROADS'09 |
| Title: | 4th International Workshop on Real Overlays and Distributed Systems |
| Submission Deadline: | 2009-06-15 |
| Webpage: | http://roads.mytestbed.net |
| Dates: | October, 14, 2009 |
| Location: | Big Sky, MT, USA |
| Contact Email: | roads-sosp09@sophia.inria.fr |
| Synopsis: |
| The ROADS workshop goal is to bring together people exploring challenges in building widely distributed networked systems with those building global-scale facilities to enable research on future communication networks, with an emphasis on systems that run on real networks, providing real services to real users. For this workshop we especially welcome papers that explore the interaction between simulation (e.g., ModelNet or ns-3), emulation (e.g., Emulab), and more realistic deployment settings (e.g., PlanetLab) to better predict performance or architectural bottlenecks when scaling up distributed service on experimental environments. |
NEW THIS MONTH! | PLOS 2009 |
| Title: | Fifth Workshop on Programming Languages and Operating Systems (PLOS 2009) |
| Submission Deadline: | 2009-06-19 |
| Webpage: | http://plosworkshop.org/2009/ |
| Dates: | October 11, 2009 |
| Location: | Big Sky Resort, Big Sky, MT, USA |
| Contact Email: | eeide@cs.utah.edu |
| Synopsis: |
| Historically, operating system development and programming language development went hand-in-hand. Today, although the systems community at large retains an iron grip on C, many people continue to explore novel approaches to OS construction based on new programming language ideas. This workshop will bring together researchers and developers from the programming language and operating system domains to discuss recent work at the intersection of these fields. It will be a platform for discussing new visions, challenges, experiences, problems, and solutions arising from the application of advanced programming and software engineering concepts to operating systems construction, and vice versa. |
WASL 2009 | |
| Title: | Workshop on the Analysis of System Logs |
| Submission Deadline: | 2009-06-29 |
| Webpage: | http://www.systemloganalysis.com |
| Dates: | 10/14/1009 |
| Location: | Big Sky, MT (at SOSP) |
| Contact Email: | greg@bronevetsky.com |
| Synopsis: |
| System logs are a rich information source for analyzing and diagnosing system problems and predicting future events. However, most of this information is wasted due its lack of organization and cross-vendor semantic consistency. WASL focuses on novel techniques for extracting operationally useful information from existing logs and methods to improve the information content of future logs. Topics: -Reports on publicly available log sources -Log anonymization -Log feature detection and extraction -Prediction of malfunction or misuse -Statistical log characterization -Log compression/comparison -Methods to enhance and standardize log semantics -Diagnostic techniques -Log visualization -Analysis of services (problem ticket) logs |
HPCA 2010 | |
| Title: | 16th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture |
| Abstract Deadline: | 2009-07-24 |
| Submission Deadline: | 2009-07-31 |
| Webpage: | http://www.hpcaconf.org/hpca16 |
| Dates: | January 9-13, 2010 |
| Location: | Bangalore, India |
| Contact Email: | onur@cmu.edu |
| Synopsis: |
| The International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture provides a high-quality forum for scientists and engineers to present their latest research findings in this rapidly-changing field. Authors are invited to submit papers on all aspects of high-performance computer architecture. * Processor, cache and memory architectures * Parallel computer architectures * Multicore architectures * Impact of technology on architecture * Power-efficient architectures and techniques * Dependable/Secure architectures * High-performance I/O systems * Embedded and reconfigurable architectures * Interconnect and network interface architectures * Network processor architectures * Innovative hardware/software trade-offs * Impact of compilers and system software on architecture * Performance modeling and evaluation * Architectures for emerging technology and applications |
| Title: | Announcing a Wiki and E-Mail List for Undergraduate Systems Education |
| Summary: |
Two resources have been set up for researchers with interests in undergraduate systems education. These are: 1. A Wiki hosted at: http://www.ssrc.ucsc.edu/wikis/systemsugrad/ 2. An E-Mail list. To subscribe, send "subscribe ugrad-systems" to majordomo@wheaton.edu. These resources have been set up as a result of a bird-of-a-feather (BoF) session held at OSDI 2008. Any questions can be directed to Cary Gray (Cary.G.Gray@wheaton.edu). |