ACM EuroSys

ACM EuroSys
Name	ACM EuroSys
Discipline	Computer science
Abbreviation	EuroSys
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Country	International
First	2006
Frequency	Annual

ACM EuroSys ACM EuroSys is an annual international conference on computer systems, convening researchers and practitioners from fields such as Operating system, Distributed computing, Computer networking, Cloud computing, and Computer architecture. The conference attracts submissions and attendees affiliated with institutions like Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Cambridge, ETH Zurich, University of California, Berkeley, and Google. EuroSys proceedings are indexed alongside venues such as ACM SIGCOMM, USENIX ATC, OSDI, SOSP, and ASPLOS.

History

EuroSys was established in 2006 amid growing interest in large-scale systems research driven by projects at Microsoft Research, IBM Research, Amazon Web Services, HP Labs, and Intel Research. Early meetings featured contributors from laboratories including University of Toronto, Carnegie Mellon University, Imperial College London, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Over time EuroSys grew in parallel with conferences such as SOSP, OSDI, SIGCOMM 2006, HotCloud, and USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation while interacting with initiatives like European Research Council, Horizon 2020, and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions. Notable program committee members have hailed from Stanford University, Princeton University, University of Washington, University of California, San Diego, and Technische Universität München.

Scope and Topics

EuroSys covers topics at the intersection of projects such as MapReduce, Hadoop, Kubernetes, Docker, and Spark and research lines represented at SIGMOD, VLDB, PLDI, ICFP, and IPSN. Typical subject areas include Fault tolerance, Consistency model, Storage system, File system, and Virtualization with submissions that reference systems like Ceph, ZFS, Btrfs, RAID, and RAFT consensus algorithm. The conference also entertains work on performance evaluation comparable to studies at SPEC, TPC, µBench, and methodologies used by groups at Google Research, Facebook AI Research, Netflix Open Source, and Dropbox Research.

Conference Format and Organization

EuroSys follows a single-track format similar to SOSP and OSDI and uses a program committee selection process akin to ICML and NeurIPS peer review models, with reviewers from ETH Zurich, École Normale Supérieure, University of Oxford, Delft University of Technology, and KTH Royal Institute of Technology. The event typically includes keynote talks by researchers from Microsoft Research, Apple Inc., Amazon, Google, and Facebook (Meta Platforms) alongside panels featuring representatives of ARM Holdings, NVIDIA, Intel Corporation, Red Hat, and VMware. Workshops and tutorials are organized in the spirit of HotNets, EuroSys Workshop on Microkernels, and Middleware, and the conference logistics are coordinated with local hosts such as Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Technical University of Munich, University of Lisbon, and Trinity College Dublin.

Notable Papers and Impact

EuroSys has published influential papers that relate to systems innovations like Xen (virtual machine monitor), KVM, LXC, Tor, and BitTorrent and that have influenced deployments at Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, Netflix, and Dropbox. Papers on topics such as Distributed hash table, Consistent hashing, Log-structured file system, Snapshotting, and Garbage collection have been cited alongside foundational work from ACM SIGMOD, IEEE INFOCOM, NeurIPS, and PLDI. Several EuroSys publications have impacted standards and open-source projects including Linux kernel, Apache Software Foundation, OpenStack, Kubernetes', and Ceph while informing policy at organizations like IETF, IEEE Standards Association, and W3C.

Sponsorship and Affiliation

EuroSys is sponsored and technically co-sponsored by divisions and organizations such as the Association for Computing Machinery, ACM SIGOPS, ACM SIGARCH, ACM SIGCOMM, and partners from industry including Google, Microsoft, Intel, Facebook (Meta Platforms), and Amazon. Academic support frequently comes from universities like University College London, Sorbonne University, RWTH Aachen University, University of Edinburgh, and Politecnico di Milano while funding and exhibition presence often involve ARM Holdings, NVIDIA Corporation, Red Hat, SAP SE, and Oracle Corporation.

Awards and Recognition

EuroSys confers awards for Best Paper, Best Student Paper, and Test-of-Time recognition, analogous to honors at SOSP, OSDI, SIGCOMM Awards, VLDB Best Paper, and ICLR Best Paper. Award recipients have included researchers affiliated with MIT CSAIL, Harvard University, Yale University, University of California, Los Angeles, and Columbia University, and winners often later receive broader recognition such as ACM Fellowship, IEEE Fellow, SIGOPS Hall of Fame, and grants from European Research Council and National Science Foundation.

Category:Computer systems conferences