SIGOPS ANNOUNCE monthly posting (06/03/2014)

ROME 2014

CANS 2014

NEW THIS MONTH!

APSys 2014

MTD 2014

CEWIT2014

NEW THIS MONTH!

TRUDEVICE 2014

OPODIS 2014

PPoPP'15

NEW THIS MONTH!

EuroSys 2015

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CALL FOR NOMINATIONS:  ACM SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award 
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The Mark Weiser Award was created in 2001 by ACM SIGOPS, to be
given to an individual who has demonstrated creativity and
innovation in operating systems research. The recipient must have
begun his or her career no earlier than 20 years prior to
nomination.
 
The award is named in honor of Mark Weiser, a computing visionary
recognized for his research accomplishments during his career at
Xerox PARC. ACM SIGOPS will present a $1000 prize to the
recipient, in memory of Mark and his many contributions to SIGOPS
and the operating systems community. The award will be given
annually at SOSP and OSDI.
 
The selection committee will choose the recipient based on:
"contributions that are highly creative, innovative, and possibly
high-risk, in keeping with the visionary spirit of Mark Weiser."
 
Nominations are due August 1st, 2014.  Please see
http://www.sigops.org/award-weiser.html
for detailed nomination procedures, a list of previous
award winners, and a list of award-committee members.

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CALL FOR NOMINATIONS:  ACM SIGOPS Dennis M. Ritchie Award 
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*Deadline: July 1st, 2014*

The Dennis M. Ritchie Doctoral Dissertation Award was created in
2013 by ACM SIGOPS 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 was presented at the 24th ACM Symposium on
Operating Systems Principles, 2013. This will be an annual award
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 AT&T Labs Research.

*Submission Procedure*

Please see http://www.sigops.org/award-weiser.html
for detailed nomination procedures and a list of previous
award winners.


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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 http://jobs.eurosys.org/ 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
http://jobs.eurosys.org/, 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.