Editor’s Note: Perspect is an innovative performance debugging tool developed by Jenny Ren and the team. It introduces a novel concept known as Relational Debugging. The key idea of relational debugging is to analyze the “relation” between runtime events and use relations to explain performance issues. In her OSDI’23 paper, Jenny makes the analogy between … Read more
The end of October 2023 was an exciting time, since the 29th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP ’23) took place in Koblenz, Germany and the 14th ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC ’23) in Santa Cruz, CA, USA. Both conferences featured exciting keynote talks, paper presentations and poster sessions with attendees from all … Read more
Previously on the SIGOPS blog, we discussed the current status of artifact evaluation (AE) and how to improve it. At HotOS’23, we took another step in this direction: attendees discussed artifact evaluation in a panel led by Shriram Krishnamurthi (Brown), Margo Seltzer (UBC), and Neeraja Yadwadkar (UT Austin), and organized by Roberta De Viti (MPI-SWS), … Read more
Editor’s note: Since HotOS ’21, Systems Trivia has become systems researchers’ favorite activity – it’s always incredibly fun and educational. Systems Trivia was created by Roberta De Viti and Vaastav Anand who have then been successfully running it at HotOS ’21, SOSP ’21, and HotOS ’23. In this article, We invite Roberta and Vaastav to … Read more