The Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), organized by
USENIX
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, is one of the two top academic conferences on systems research, along with
SOSP. A number of notable systems were first published as OSDI papers, including
MapReduce
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A MapReduce program is composed of a ''map'' procedure, which performs filte ...
,
Bigtable,
Spanner, and
TensorFlow
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.
History
Until the early 1990s,
SOSP was the main venue for the systems community to meet and publish work, but it was held only once every two years. In 1994, this led to the creation of OSDI as an alternative venue for years in which SOSP was not held.
The idea came from
Jay Lepreau, who also served as the first program chair. In the following years, OSDI and SOSP took turns as the top-tier systems conference of the year. However, the systems community kept growing and, as single-track conferences, both could accept only a limited number of papers; thus, acceptance rates dropped significantly. This led to a community proposal to turn both into annual conferences,
[ which was accepted by SIGOPS. As a result, OSDI became an annual conference in 2021.]
Locations
* 2024: Santa Clara, CA
* 2023: Boston, MA
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* 2022: Carlsbad, CA
* 2021: (virtual)
* 2020: (virtual)
* 2018: Carlsbad, CA
* 2016: Savannah, GA
* 2014: Broomfield, CO
* 2012: Hollywood, CA
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* 2010: Vancouver, BC
* 2008: San Diego, CA
* 2006: Seattle, WA
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* 2004: San Francisco, CA
* 2002: Boston, MA
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* 2000: San Diego, CA
* 1999: New Orleans, LA
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* 1996: Seattle, WA
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* 1994: Monterey, CA
See also
* List of computer science conferences
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General
* FCRC – Federated Computing Resear ...
References
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