Distributed computing in SOSP and OSDI

  • Authors:
  • Allen Clement

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Texas at Austin

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGACT News
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

SOSP, the ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, and OSDI, the USENIX Symposium no Operating System Design and Implementation, are "the world's premier forum for researches, developers, programmers, vendors, and teachers of operating systems technology" according to the SOSP home page. While it may seem odd to discuss operating systems conferences in a column dedicated to distributed computing, the proceedings of the last few SOSP and OSDI's have included numerous papers focused on topics more traditionally associated with distributed computing---primarily transactions, Byzantine fault tolerance, and large distributed systems. In this article we highlight papers from the last 3 years of SOSP and OSDI that are especially relevant to the distributed computing community, identifying areas where the distributed computing community was clearly ahead of its time and others where it was not.