Editors:
Tianyin Xu, Akshitha Sriraman, Zhaoguo Wang, and Baris Kasikci
A New ASPLOS Conference Submission Process
TL;DR The ASPLOS Steering Committee is considering two changes to the ASPLOS submission process: 1) three submission deadlines spread over the year, and 2) the possibility for papers near acceptance to be revised and resubmitted. This proposal outlines these changes. The steering committee welcomes comments and suggestions for improvement (please read the whole thing first)
The Return of the Unix Shell
With about half a century of life, the Unix shell is pervasive and entrenched in our computing infrastructure—with recent virtualization and containerization trends only propelling its use. A fresh surge of academic research highlights show potential for tackling long-standing open problems that are central to the shell and enable further progress. A recent panel discussion
How Did Professors Find Their Jobs? Part 1: Diversity in Experiences
Editor’s notes: The new faculty job search season is approaching. We invite newly-hired professors to share their experiences and practices of faculty job search, in the hope of providing valuable information for new faculty candidates to know more about the process and prepare their search accordingly. We invite Manuel Rigger to open up the series.
Fish in a Barrel: an insider’s retrospective of the SOSP’09 multikernel paper
Editor’s notes: We invite SIGOPS Hall of Fame (HoF) winners to write about backstories behind the HoF work. In this article, Andrew Baumann wrote an insider’s retrospective of the 2009 SOSP (and recent SIGOPS HoF) paper “The Multikernel: A new OS architecture for scalable multicore systems“. Andrew is a researcher in the Systems Group at Microsoft Research Redmond. His research
There and back again: My journey through the world of RDMA and fast RPCs
Editor’s notes: We invite SIGOPS award winners to write about backstories behind the award-winning work. In this article, Anuj Kalia shares his journey of his PhD dissertation–“Efficient Remote Procedure Calls for Datacenters”–which received the Honorable Mention for the 2020 Dennis M. Ritchie Award. Anuj is a Senior Researcher in Azure for Operators’ Office of the CTO.
How Are Award-winning Systems Research Artifacts Prepared (Episode 2)
Editor’s notes: As more and more systems research conferences start to adopt artifact evaluation (AE), we invite Manuel Rigger and Arpan Gujarati to share their practices and experience on preparing award-winning systems research artifacts — their artifacts received the Distinguished Artifact Awards at OSDI’20. In the first edition, Manuel shared his practice of building and maintaining SQLancer, an automatic testing tool