USENIX Update

The 9th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI ‘10) seeks to present innovative, exciting research in computer systems. OSDI brings together professionals from academic and
industrial backgrounds in what has become a premier forum for discussing the design, implementation, and implications of systems software.

More information and submission guidelines can be found here.

Submissions Deadline: May 7, 2010

OSDI ‘10 will take place October 4-6, 2010, in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Sponsored by USENIX in cooperation with ACM SIGOPS.

The paper submissions deadline for the 7th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI ‘10) is approaching. Please submit your work by September 25, 2009.

NSDI focuses on the design principles and practical evaluation of large-scale networked and distributed systems. The goal is to bring together researchers from across the networking and systems community to foster a broad approach to addressing our common research challenges.

More information and submission guidelines can be found here.

USENIX NSDI ‘10 will take place April 28–30, 2010, in  San Jose, CA.

Not able to attend USENIX Annual Tech?  Videos from the first two sessions are now available.

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Today kicks off the first in a series of interviews with the USENIX ‘09 Tutorial Instructors.

First up: Peter Baer Galvin

New! – Solaris 10 Administration Workshop 1: Administration – (hands on)

New! – Solaris 10 Administration Workshop 2: Virtualization – (hands on)

New! – Solaris 10 Administration Workshop 3: File Systems and Security - (hands on)

Peter is the Chief Technologist for Corporate Technologies, Inc., a systems integrator and VAR. Previously he was the Systems Manager for Brown University’s Computer Science Department. He is currently a columnist for ;login:. He has written articles for Byte and other magazines, as well as columns for SunWorld and Sys Admin magazines. Peter is co-author of the Operating Systems Concepts and Applied Operating Systems Concepts textbooks. As a consultant and trainer, Peter has taught tutorials on security and system administration and has given talks at many conferences and institutions on such topics as Web services, performance tuning, security, system administration, and high availability.

And now the questions…

1. What is your class about? What can attendees expect to take away from it?
It’s all about the new features in Solaris 10 – ZFS, Containers, General administration, and security. Dtrace isn’t included as there are other great full day and multi-day tutorials on that.

2. Aside from your own class, what do you consider the most useful/exciting thing happening at USENIX ’09?
The “hallway BOF” is great – striking up interesting conversations about what works, what doesn’t, what’s new with other attendees.

3. What other cool new technologies are you most interested in?
What works in virtualization and large facility management are hot topics.

Find out more about Peter’s classes here.

Note: Peter teaches jointly with Marc Stavely.