SIGOPS ANNOUNCE monthly posting (09/09/2007)

CONTENTS

  1. Announcements:
    ASPLOS XIII Call for Workshops and Tutorials2007-10-01https://research.microsoft.com/asplos08/
    NSDI 20082007-10-02http://www.usenix.org/nsdi08/
    IPTPS 20082007-11-02http://www.cs.toronto.edu/iptps2008/
    MSPC 20082007-11-06http://www.cs.umass.edu/MSPC08
    IEEE Network Magazine Special Issue CFP2007-11-10http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/net/
    IEEE Micro Special Issue CFP2008-01-05http://research.microsoft.com/~onur/cfp_micro_may08.pdf

    2. (*= new this month)

  2. Special Announcements:
    SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award

    3. SOSP 2007 Registration Open
    SOSP 2007 Women's Workshop -- Call for Participation

  3. About SIGOPS Announce mailing list
    How to unsubscribe, subscribe, and submit requests for announcements.


ANNOUNCEMENTS

ASPLOS XIII Call for Workshops and Tutorials

Title:Call for Workshops and Tutorials in Conjunction with ASPLOS XIII
Submission Deadline:2007-10-01
Webpage:https://research.microsoft.com/asplos08/
Dates:March 1-2, 2008
Location:Seattle, WA USA
Contact Email:swift@cs.wisc.edu
Synopsis:
Proposals are being solicited for workshops and tutorials to be organized in conjunction with ASPLOS-XIII. Please keep in mind that the goal of tutorials is to educate the community on a new idea, practice, or tool. The goal of workshops is to foster discussion on new topics in emerging areas. Also, that a major characteristic of the workshops should be high level of interactivity. Also, that a major characteristic of the workshops and tutorials should be high level of interactivity. Please choose the topics and format accordingly. See the tutorials and workshops pages at the ASPLOS web page for more details.

NSDI 2008

Title:5th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
Abstract Deadline:2007-10-02
Submission Deadline:2007-10-08
Webpage:http://www.usenix.org/nsdi08/
Dates:April 16-18 2008
Location:San Francisco, CA, USA
Contact Email:nsdi08chairs@usenix.org
Synopsis:
NSDI focuses on the design principles and practical evaluation of large-scale networked and distributed systems. Systems as diverse as Internet routing, peer-to-peer and overlay networks, sensor networks, Web-based systems, and measurement infrastructures share a set of common challenges. Progress in any of these areas requires a deep understanding of how researchers are addressing the challenges of large-scale systems in other contexts. Our goal is to bring together researchers from across the networking and systems community--including communication, distributed systems, and operating systems--to foster a broad approach to addressing our common research challenges.

IPTPS 2008

Title:7th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS '08)
Submission Deadline:2007-11-02
Webpage:http://www.cs.toronto.edu/iptps2008/
Dates:02, 25-26, 2008
Location:Tampa Bay, FL USA
Contact Email:stefan@cs.toronto.edu
Synopsis:
The 7th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS '08) provides a forum for researchers to engage in a lively discussion of current and future trends in peer-to-peer systems, broadly defined. In the context of this year's workshop, peer-to-peer systems are defined to be systems that enable sharing and cooperation among ordinary users whether the underlying technology is decentralized or not, including but not limited to Internet systems, Web-based systems, overlay networks, online games, mobile systems, and online social networks. We encourage submissions of early work, with novel and interesting ideas.

MSPC 2008

Title:The 2008 ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Memory Systems Performance & Correctness (MSPC 2008)
Submission Deadline:2007-11-06
Webpage:http://www.cs.umass.edu/MSPC08
Dates:March 2, 2008
Location:Seattle, WA, USA
Contact Email:bradchen@google.com
Synopsis:
As CPUs rely increasingly on parallelism rather than frequency to improve performance, the memory system emerges as the fundamental barrier to continued improvement in system-level performance. Previous tactics like increasing cache size and associativity become less and less relevant in a world where NUMA memory behaviors and inter-processor contention dominate application performance. MSPC is a forum for exploring these emerging challenges. This multi-disciplinary workshop fosters collaboration among researchers in compilers, programming languages, architecture, operating systems and adjacent specialties. We welcome position papers on all aspects of memory system performance and correctness.

IEEE Network Magazine Special Issue CFP

Title:Special issue on Composable context aware services
Submission Deadline:2007-11-10
Webpage:http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/net/
Dates:Publication -- Aug/Sep 2008
Location:N/A
Contact Email:raj.yavatkar@intel.com
Synopsis:
The purpose is to present the state-of-the-art in research and practice of networking for composable context aware computing and connectivity. This special issue will discuss (a) applications and middleware that are needed to create and support composable services, (b) design of network protocols and software stacks for automatic composition, (c) the impact of context awareness to simplify network configuration, and (d) Implications for network system architecture and design. Papers should bridge the gap from academic research to early experience or deployment of monitoring infrastructure. In particular, papers must have content that has tutorial value and be comprehensive

IEEE Micro Special Issue CFP

Title:Interaction of Computer Architecture and Operating Systems in the Many-core Era (IEEE Micro May/June 2008)
Submission Deadline:2008-01-05
Webpage:http://research.microsoft.com/~onur/cfp_micro_may08.pdf
Dates:May 2008
Location:IEEE Micro
Contact Email:onur@microsoft.com
Synopsis:
As the Operating System (OS) or system software in general is the centerpiece of a computer system managing various platform hardware resources, the breathtaking evolution of the many-core processor architecture will require a fundamental reexamination of mainstream OS/system-software design decisions. The purpose of this special issue of the IEEE Micro magazine is to bring readers the latest advances in the interface of the fields of operating systems and computer architecture, with a focus on how the important system software affects the architecture design and vice versa, in order to achieve increasingly involved platform and system design goals.
Title:  SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award
Summary:  

The SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award was instituted in 2005 to recognize the most influential Operating Systems papers that have appeared in the per-reviewed literature, at least ten years in the past. Previous award winners are listed at

http://www.sigops.org/awards/hall-of-fame.html

We invite your nominations for this year's award. As part of the process of bootstrapping the award, up to five awards will be presented at SOSP 2007.

Please take a moment and nominate your favorite paper by sending a message to HOFnominations@sosp2007.org. Please put the title of the paper you are nominating in the Subject line, and include some text in the body describing the reasons for your nomination. Please also provide the full citation information for the paper being nominated. You may send more than one nomination, but please put each in a separate email.

The deadline for nominations is Sept. 10, 2007.

Title:  SOSP 2007 Registration Open
Summary:  

Registration has now opened for SOSP 2007, to be held at Skamania Lodge in Stevenson, WA, USA from Oct. 14 through Oct. 17, 2007. Please visit the registration page on the SOSP web site, http://www.sosp2007.org, for more details and for the technical program. Early registration runs from now through September 7, 2007.

Title:  SOSP 2007 Women's Workshop -- Call for Participation
Summary:  

In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the SYSTERS electronic forum that started with women from the systems research community at SOSP'87, SOSP'07 has initiated a special workshop for women in computer systems as a prelude to the beginning of the SOSP conference. The one-day workshop will commence in the late afternoon on Saturday, Oct. 13 and proceed through Sunday, and is targeted to women students at the graduate and senior undergraduate levels with interests in computer systems research. Women involved in systems research in industry and academia are also welcome to participate.

Through the generous support of CRA-W, NSF, Microsoft, Google, and HP, we are able to offer a significant number of scholarship awards for graduate and senior undergraduate women to participate in this workshop, followed by SOSP attendance. The awards provide an allowance for travel, shared room accommodation, and registration.

The purpose of this posting in multifold. First, we want the greater systems community to be aware of the Women's Workshop and encourage support and participation. Second, for graduate and senior undergraduate students, we invite and encourage you to attend. The first step is to apply for one of these scholarships. The deadline for application is August 15th, and instructions may be found on the SOSP web site listed below. Third is a request for help from the faculty mentors out there. We ask you to get in touch with your women students who may benefit from this opportunity and get them to apply for scholarships and attend this workshop.

Please see http://www.sosp2007.org/ for both a link to the women's workshop description and tentative program as well as a link to the scholarship application procedures.

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