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| SOSP 2007 | |
|---|---|
| Name | SOSP 2007 |
| Location | Kyoto, Japan |
| Dates | October 14–17, 2007 |
| Organizer | Association for Computing Machinery |
| Previous | SOSP 2005 |
| Next | SOSP 2009 |
SOSP 2007 SOSP 2007 was the 21st biennial symposium organized by the Association for Computing Machinery and hosted in Kyoto under the auspices of the ACM Special Interest Group on Operating Systems and the International Symposium on Computer Architecture community networks; it gathered researchers from institutions such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Cambridge, and Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. The program showcased advances spanning distributed systems, virtualization, file systems, and security, attracting participants from Microsoft Research, Google, IBM Research, Intel, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, and national laboratories including Los Alamos National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
The symposium continued the lineage established by earlier conferences like USENIX Annual Technical Conference and ACM SIGCOMM gatherings, offering a forum for researchers affiliated with Princeton University, Cornell University, Harvard University, University of Washington, ETH Zurich, EPFL, and University of Toronto. Sessions reflected cross-cutting themes relevant to projects at DARPA, National Science Foundation, European Research Council, and corporate research groups at Apple Inc. and Facebook. Attendees included authors and reviewers who had contributed to landmark works such as The Google File System, MapReduce, Chubby, and Xen.
The multi-day program featured paper presentations, poster sessions, workshops, and panels similar in structure to previous editions like SOSP 2003 and SOSP 1999, with tracks covering file systems influenced by Andrew File System, storage influenced by RAID research, virtualization evolutions from VMware, and security debates reminiscent of Cryptographic Module Validation Program discussions. Workshops and tutorials invited contributors from OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, and projects at Red Hat and Canonical Ltd.; satellite events included meetups with representatives from ACM SIGPLAN and IEEE Computer Society.
Keynotes and invited talks featured speakers drawn from institutions and organizations like Microsoft Research, Google, Intel Labs, Facebook, IBM Research, Yahoo! Research, and influential academics affiliated with University of California, San Diego, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, Duke University, Columbia University, and University of Maryland, College Park. Presentations referenced foundational works connected to Leslie Lamport, Barbara Liskov, Andrew S. Tanenbaum, and Ken Thompson and discussed industrial systems such as Bigtable, Spanner, ZFS, and Btrfs.
Proceedings included papers that advanced topics tied to earlier milestones like Plan 9 from Bell Labs, Erlang, Acta, and HTTP/1.1 evolutions; authors representing MIT Lincoln Laboratory, SRI International, and Bell Labs Research presented systems addressing reliability inspired by Paxos and Raft consensus paradigms, as well as storage designs echoing Log-structured File System innovations. Contributions showcased new approaches to kernel design related to themes from Mach (kernel), microkernels championed by L4 microkernel family, and performance engineering practiced at Netflix and Amazon Web Services.
The symposium recognized influential work with conference awards analogous to accolades given by ACM SIGOPS and honors paralleling distinctions from IEEE John von Neumann Medal, ACM A.M. Turing Award laureates, and society prizes; recipients included authors whose subsequent careers included appointments at Stanford University, MIT, Carnegie Mellon University, UC Berkeley, and industry leadership roles at Google and Microsoft. Papers from the proceedings were later cited in influential texts distributed by Addison-Wesley and referenced in curricula at institutions such as Imperial College London and Tokyo Institute of Technology.
Local organizers collaborated with committees from ACM SIGOPS, Kyoto University, Osaka University, and international program committees with members from Princeton University, ETH Zurich, EPFL, University of Cambridge, University of Melbourne, and Seoul National University. The venue in Kyoto provided proximity to cultural sites like Kinkaku-ji and logistical links via Kansai International Airport; sponsorship and support came from entities including Microsoft Research, Intel, IBM, Google, NEC Corporation, and Hitachi.
The work presented influenced subsequent developments in distributed storage, virtualization, and fault tolerance adopted by projects at Google, Amazon, Facebook, Netflix, Red Hat, and Canonical Ltd.; ideas from the proceedings informed research programs at National Science Foundation, DARPA, European Research Council, and industrial roadmaps at Intel and ARM Holdings. The symposium reinforced connections between academic groups at MIT, Stanford University, UC Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University, and University of Cambridge and industrial labs such as Microsoft Research, IBM Research, and Bell Labs Research, shaping curricula, spawning startups, and seeding follow-on work in later conferences like OSDI, FAST, and EuroSys.