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 this year, and continues in the same vein as the People of PL, People of POPL, … Read more
The NSF-funded systems research testbed, Chameleon, has just been extended for another 4 years! Since public release 5 years ago, it has served almost 5,000 users working on research and education projects. Chameleon supports bare metal reconfiguration, custom kernel boot, and serial console access. Chameleon hardware combines scale with diversity, providing access to many different … Read more
The latest issue of ACM OSR (vol. 54, no. 1) is now available in the ACM Digital Library. With seven papers, this issue addresses the special topics: formal methods and verification; and synchronization and locking Mechanisms. Formal Methods and Verification Towards Provable Timing-Channel Prevention. By Gernot Heiser, Toby Murray, and Gerwin Klein (UNSW, Sydney). überSpark: Practical, Provable, … Read more
The 15th European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys’20) was organized as a virtual (online) conference on April 27- 30, 2020. The main EuroSys’20 track took place April 28-30, 2020, preceded by five workshops (EdgeSys’20, EuroDW’20, EuroSec’20, PaPoC’20, SPMA’20) on April 27, 2020. The decision to hold a virtual (online) conference was taken in early April … Read more