In early 2023, we received an invitation from the SOSP PC chairs to serve as Artifact Evaluation Co-chairs for SOSP 2023. This was an incredibly exciting opportunity for all of us. As junior members in the systems community, being able to take on a leadership role at our flagship conference is an honor and a … Read more
Message Passing V.S Distributed Shared Memory As Moore’s Law slows down, horizontal scaling has become the predominant strategy for enhancing system performance. Nonetheless, the inherent complexities of distributed programming present substantial challenges in creating efficient, correct, and resilient systems. Streamlining this process remains a fundamental objective of distributed programming frameworks. In the realm of distributed … Read more
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