SIGOPS ANNOUNCE monthly posting (07/01/2013)

HOT CHIPS 25 (2013)

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DCC 2013

HotDep 2013

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EuroSys 2014

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Call for Nominations: SIGOPS Dennis M. Ritchie Award
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Deadline: August 1st, 2013

ACM SIGOPS is pleased to announce the SIGOPS Dennis M. Ritchie
Doctoral Dissertation Award to recognize research in software systems
and to encourage the creativity that Dennis Ritchie embodied,
providing a reminder of Ritchie's legacy and what a difference one
person can make in the field of software systems research. The first
award will be presented at the 24th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems
Principles, November 3-6, 2013, Nemacolin Woodlands Resort,
Pennsylvania. This will be an annual aw1rd presented in alternating
years at SOSP and OSDI.

Eligibility

Each year, a department is allowed to nominate one Ph.D. thesis
produced in that department. The nomination must be made by the chair
of the department and must be accompanied by three supporting letters
from researchers in the field, clearly specifying the contributions of
the thesis and the potential impact on software systems. (If the
department chair is the thesis advisor of the nominee, then another
senior faculty member in the department must make the nomination.) The
thesis must have been defended successfully at most two years before
the conference at which the award will be presented. An
English-language version of the thesis must accompany the
nomination. The Award Committee will determine if the thesis is within
scope for the award. The thesis may be nominated simultaneously for
other awards, such as the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award.

Award

The SIGOPS Dennis M. Ritchie Doctoral Dissertation Award is
accompanied by a prize of $2,000. Financial sponsorship of the award
is provided by SIGOPS, Bell Labs Alcatel-Lucent, and ATT Labs
Research.

Submission Procedure

Each nomination packet should be emailed by the department chair by
email to the chair of the award committee, Robbert van Renesse
(dmr-award [at] acm.org). In the subject title of the email, please
write "SIGOPS Dennis M. Ritchie Doctoral Dissertation submission for
(nominee name)". Submissions should be sent bundled in one zipped
file.

A nomination packet MUST include:

* Nomination letter by the department chair or senior faculty
  member. This letter must include a one-page summary of the
  significance of the dissertation.
* Three or more endorsement letters from researchers in the field, at
  least three of which must come from universities or colleges other
  than the nominating one.
* A copy of the thesis.
* Information on when and where the thesis was defended. 

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Call for Proposals: Availability of 1000 Nodes for Systems Research
Experiments
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NSF's PRObE (www.nmc-probe.org) operates four clusters to support
systems research at scale.  The largest is Kodiak
(https://www.nmc-probe.org/wiki/Machines:Kodiak), which is 1000 nodes
(two core x86, 8GB DRAM, two 1TB disks, 1GE and 8Gbps IB) donated by
Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Today Kodiak is hosting researchers from Georgia Tech, Carnegie Mellon
and Los Alamos.  Princeton researchers have published results from
Kodiak at the most recent NSDI (Wyatt Lloyd, "Stronger Semantics for
Low-Latency Geo-Replicated Storage", NSDI 2013).  On PRObE staging
clusters are researchers from U Central Florida, UT Austin, Georgia
Tech and Carnegie Mellon.

PRObE resources are intended for (infrastructure) systems researchers
committed to public release of their research results, typically
publishing in distributed systems (eg. OSDI or SOSP), cloud computing
(e.g. SOCC), supercomputing (e.g. SC or HPDC), storage (e.g. FAST), or
networking (e.g. NSDI).

PRObE resources are managed by Emulab (www.emulab.org) a cluster
manager for allocating physical nodes that has been in use for systems
research for over a decade (Brian White, "An Experimental Environment
for Distributed Systems and Networks," OSDI 2002).  Users start by
porting and demonstrating their code on a 100-node staging cluster
such as Denali built from the same equipment donation from Los Alamos.
With demonstrated success on a staging cluster, and a compelling
research goal, Kodiak can be requested and allocated, possibly
exclusively, for hours to days.

To start using PRObE resources:
- visit www.nmc-probe.org to learn about the resources
- visit portal.nmc-probe.org to request a PRObE-specific Emulab
  account
- have a research leader or faculty member get an account and define a
  project on portal.nmc-probe.org
- use Portal to get onto Denali, to allocate a single node experiment,
  login into that node to customize and resave the OS image for your
  project, then launch a multi-node experiment to demonstrate your
  system at less than 100 node scale
- use https://www.nmc-probe.org/request/ to request a large allocation
  on Kodiak (this is a HotCRP paper review web site, where your paper
  is a short justification for your research, your preparedness for
  using Kodiak, and your credientials and appropriateness for using
  NSF resources)
- PRObE managers will review, approve and schedule your use of large
  allocations of Kodiak time

In a matter of weeks another style of large PRObE resource will come
online.  Susitna is 34 nodes of 64 core x86 processors, for a total of
more than 2000 x86 cores.  Susitna also has NVidia donated K20 GPU
coprocessors with 2496 cuda cores each, for a total of 84,864 cuda
cores.  With 128 GB DRAM, a hard disk and an SSD each, Susitna nodes
are interconnected by 40Gbps ethernet, 40 Gbps infiniband and 1Gbps
ethernet.

NSF PRObE resources will be available for at least the next two years.

All uses of PRObE resources are obligated to publish their results,
either in conferences or one their web sites, and acknowledge NSF
PRObE resources used in these publications.

See also our PRObE introduction article in the June 2013 USENIX
;login: vol 38, no 3, 2013
(www.cs.cmu.edu/~garth/papers/07_gibson_036-039_final.pdf).

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The EuroSys jobs page: A resource for the whole systems community
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If you are searching for a position in the Systems area, take a look
at www.eurosys.org/jobs. New announcements are posted every day, in
several categories: internships, PhD grants and doctoral programs,
post-docs and permanent positions.

If you want to advertise for systems people, go to
www.eurosys.org/jobs, and click on the appropriate "Advertise" link.
YOu will be asked to fill in a small form, with a 10-word description
of the job offer, the URL of your lab and the URL of a more detailed
advertisement.

The EuroSys jobs page gets around 10,000 hits a month.