Editors:
Tianyin Xu, Akshitha Sriraman, Zhaoguo Wang, and Baris Kasikci
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
People of Systems & Architecture: Karin Strauss & Luis Ceze
With most systems and architecture conferences taking the online route, we figured it’s a great time to get to know a few people in the systems/architecture research community. People of Systems & Architecture is a series of interviews conducted since last year, and continues in the same vein as the People of PL, People of POPL, and the People of
How Are Award-winning Systems Research Artifacts Prepared (Episode 1)
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 Rigger from ETH Zurich will tell
Why We Should Include One-Shot Revision in our Review Process
Editor’s notes: The post originally appeared on the SIGARCH blog. We cross-post it because it is very relevant to the SIGOPS community. We hope the cross-posting can trigger discussions on improving the publication process of the SIGOPS community. Including one-shot revision in our peer review process could lead to lower overall reviewing load, better mental