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| Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation | |
|---|---|
| Name | Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation |
| Abbreviation | OSDI |
| Discipline | Computer science |
| Publisher | USENIX Association |
| First | 1994 |
| Frequency | Biennial |
Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation is a biennial academic conference focusing on Operating system research, systems engineering, and implementation. The symposium brings together researchers from institutions such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, and Carnegie Mellon University, as well as industry groups like Google, Microsoft, Apple Inc., and Amazon (company). OSDI sessions feature peer-reviewed papers, keynote talks, and poster sessions attracting participants from ACM SIGOPS, IEEE, USENIX Association, and national laboratories including Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Sandia National Laboratories.
OSDI functions as a major venue alongside conferences such as Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, USENIX Security Symposium, and EuroSys. The program emphasizes practical systems work with deployable prototypes from groups at Google Research, Facebook (Meta Platforms), Intel Corporation, and IBM Research. Attendees often include contributors from University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, National University of Singapore, Tsinghua University, and Technische Universität München. Papers presented at OSDI frequently intersect with projects at Linux Foundation, FreeBSD Foundation, and initiatives such as OpenStack.
The symposium originated in the 1990s in the context of parallel developments at USENIX Association, ACM, and IEEE Computer Society. Early editions showcased work from researchers affiliated with Digital Equipment Corporation, Sun Microsystems, Bell Labs, and DEC Systems Research Center. Over time OSDI evolved alongside milestones such as the rise of Linux kernel, the emergence of Xen (virtual machine monitor), and the advent of Docker (software). Noteworthy historical participants include teams from MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Berkeley Software Distribution, NetBSD Foundation, and Open Source Initiative contributors. The conference schedule has shifted between venues in San Diego, California, Boston, Massachusetts, San Francisco, and international sites collaborating with European Organization for Nuclear Research-adjacent institutions.
OSDI covers topics including virtualization research typified by work from Xen Project, KVM, and Hyper-V teams; distributed storage research linked to Google File System, Ceph, and Hadoop Distributed File System; cloud systems research from Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure groups; and hardware-software co-design involving ARM Holdings, NVIDIA, and Intel Corporation. Security-related systems papers intersect with efforts at CERT Coordination Center, National Institute of Standards and Technology, and OpenBSD projects. Other topics engage projects at MITRE Corporation, DARPA, NSF, and collaborations with European Union research programs and consortia such as Horizon 2020.
OSDI employs a program committee drawn from universities like Princeton University, Harvard University, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, and corporations such as Apple Inc., Google, Microsoft Research, and IBM Research. The call for papers follows peer review practices influenced by ACM and IEEE guidelines; accepted papers often appear in proceedings published by USENIX Association and are archived alongside materials from USENIX Security Symposium and LISA: Large Installation System Administration Conference. The event format typically includes keynote addresses by figures from DARPA, NSF, Google Research, and Facebook AI Research, as well as workshops co-located with meetings of ACM SIGOPS and tutorials from labs at Carnegie Mellon University and ETH Zurich.
OSDI has spotlighted influential papers that shaped systems research, comparable in impact to works presented at ACM SIGCOMM, ACM SOSP, and USENIX Security Symposium. Seminal contributions presented at the symposium include advances in kernel design inspired by Monolithic kernel and Microkernel debates involving groups at University of Cambridge and University of Utah; virtualization breakthroughs related to Xen Project and VMware; storage systems innovations linked to Google File System and Ceph; and distributed consensus and replication techniques resonating with Paxos (computer science) and Raft (computer science). Research from teams at Berkeley Lab, MIT CSAIL, Stanford Research Institute, and Microsoft Research has been frequently highlighted.
Papers and authors at OSDI receive community recognition through best-paper awards, often echoed by invitations to give plenary talks at ACM SIGOPS Hall of Fame events and honors from IEEE Computer Society. Contributors have gone on to receive individual awards such as the ACM Prize in Computing, the IEEE John von Neumann Medal, and membership in the National Academy of Engineering. Institutional recognition includes technology transfers to companies like Red Hat, Canonical Ltd., VMware, and spin-offs that trace lineage to projects at MIT, UC Berkeley, and Carnegie Mellon University.
The symposium has influenced curriculum at departments including Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California, Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University, and Stanford University by seeding labs and courses that reference OSDI papers alongside materials from The Art of Computer Programming, Designing Data-Intensive Applications, and canonical texts from Addison-Wesley. OSDI-driven technologies underpin production systems at Google, Amazon Web Services, Facebook (Meta Platforms), and infrastructure projects administered by National Science Foundation grants and DARPA programs. Its legacy persists through citations in journals such as Communications of the ACM, IEEE Transactions on Computers, and proceedings of ACM SOSP and continues to shape collaborations among academic institutions, national laboratories, and industry research groups.