SIGOPS ANNOUNCE monthly posting (09/02/2014)

NEW THIS MONTH!

CrossCloud Brokers 2014

PPoPP'15

W. on DB Consistency in the Cloud

EuroSys 2015 Shadow PC

OSR Special Issue

EuroSys 2015

VEE 2015

MidDep 2014

ACM e-Energy 2015

ICMC 2015

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Call for Participation: OSDI 2014
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Join us in Broomfield, CO, October 6-8, 2014, for the 11th USENIX
Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation. OSDI has
become a premier forum for discussing the design, implementation, and
implications of systems software, and OSDI seeks to present
innovative, exciting research in computer systems by bringing together
professionals from academic and industrial backgrounds.

The Symposium will span three days, with two poster sessions and over 40
paper presentations on data, security, cloud computing, storage,
transactions, and much more. VIEW THE FULL PROGRAM on-line at
https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi14.

Interested in participating? Submit a poster! Submissions are due by
September 2, 2014.

***REGISTER BY THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2014 AND SAVE!***

Planning to stay in the conference hotel? Rooms will go fast. 
BOOK your room today.

The following workshops are co-located with OSDI '14, and will take
place on Sunday, October 5, 2014:

* DIVERSITY: 2014 Workshop on Supporting Diversity in Systems Research
* HOTDEP: 10th Workshop on Hot Topics in System Dependability
* HOTPOWER: 6th Workshop on Power-Aware Computing and Systems
* INFLOW: 2nd Workshop on Interactions of NVM/Flash with Operating Systems and Workloads
* TRIOS: 2014 Conference on Timely Results in Operating Systems

We look forward to seeing you in Broomfield.

Jason Flinn, University of Michigan
Hank Levy, University of Washington
OSDI '14 Program Co-Chairs
osdi14chairs@usenix.org


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11th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '14) 
and Co-located Events October 5-8, 2014
Broomfield, CO, USA
Early Bird Registration Deadline: September 11, 2014
https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi14

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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.