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| USENIX OSDI | |
|---|---|
| Name | OSDI |
| Other names | Operating Systems Design and Implementation |
| Discipline | Computer science |
| Publisher | USENIX Association |
| Country | United States |
| Established | 1994 |
| Frequency | Biennial (historically) |
USENIX OSDI USENIX OSDI is a leading conference in computer science focusing on operating systems, distributed systems, and systems research. The conference attracts researchers from institutions such as MIT, Stanford University, UC Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University, and Harvard University, and industry labs including Google, Microsoft Research, IBM Research, Facebook, and Intel. Papers presented often influence work at ACM SIGCOMM, IEEE S&P, NSDI, SOSP, and PLDI communities.
OSDI is organized by the USENIX Association and targets advances in operating systems research, file systems, virtualization, kernel development, storage systems, concurrency control, networking stacks, fault tolerance, and security engineering. Attendees commonly come from University of Cambridge, ETH Zurich, Princeton University, Yale University, University of Washington, and corporate research groups such as Amazon Web Services, Apple Inc., NVIDIA Research, Oracle Corporation, and VMware. The conference program typically features keynote talks, technical sessions, poster sessions, and tutorials with contributors from DARPA, NSF, European Research Council, Toyota Research Institute, and IBM Watson.
OSDI evolved in the 1990s alongside milestones at institutions like Bell Labs, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Digital Equipment Corporation, Xerox PARC, and Sun Microsystems. Early work presented at the conference paralleled developments from projects such as Unix, Mach, Plan 9, BSD, and Linux kernel efforts led by researchers affiliated with University of California, Santa Cruz, Columbia University, University of Toronto, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Cornell University. Over time, OSDI incorporated topics influenced by initiatives at DARPA Grand Challenge, Google File System, MapReduce, Amazon EC2, Microsoft Azure, and collaborations with agencies like NASA and NOAA.
The scope spans experimental evaluations, formal models, and deployed systems related to virtual memory, scheduling algorithms, transaction processing, consensus protocols, replication strategies, containerization, microkernels, and access control. Contributions often cite or build upon work from researchers at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, and Argonne National Laboratory. Cross-disciplinary influence appears from collaborations with groups at Caltech, Columbia University, New York University, Duke University, and Brown University.
Submissions to OSDI follow rigorous peer review with program committees drawn from ACM, IEEE, USENIX Association, and leading universities like University of Texas at Austin, University of Michigan, University of California, San Diego, Cornell Tech, Imperial College London. The review process emphasizes novelty, evaluation methodology, and reproducibility, with reviewers often affiliated with Google Research, Facebook AI Research, Microsoft Research Cambridge, Alibaba DAMO Academy, Tencent Research, and Samsung Research. Artifact evaluation and open-source release practices parallel programs at PLDI, OOPSLA, SIGGRAPH, and NeurIPS.
OSDI has published influential papers that shaped projects such as ZFS, RAID, Lustre file system, Ceph, Google File System, Hadoop, Kubernetes, Docker, Xen, KVM, and Hyper-V. Landmark works have been authored by researchers from MIT CSAIL, Berkeley RISELab, UC Santa Barbara, University of Maryland, College Park, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Purdue University, Georgia Tech, and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. The conference influenced standards and deployments at IETF, IEEE 802, ISO, W3C, and corporate products from Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks, NetApp, Pure Storage, and Seagate Technology.
OSDI is administered by the USENIX Association with program chairs and steering committees including academics from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, University of Edinburgh, Technische Universität München, Seoul National University, Tsinghua University, and industry representatives from Red Hat, Canonical, MongoDB, Cloudera, Splunk, and Palantir Technologies. Sponsors have included Intel Corporation, AMD, NVIDIA, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, IBM, Oracle, VMware, and government funders such as NSF and DARPA.
OSDI recognizes outstanding papers with best paper awards and community awards; laureates have included recipients who later won Turing Award, SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award, ACM Fellowship, IEEE Fellowship, and national honors from institutions like Royal Society, Max Planck Society, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Academia Europaea. Alumni and presenters have moved to leadership roles at Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, OpenAI, DeepMind, Stripe, Dropbox, LinkedIn, and academic chairs at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Princeton School of Engineering and Applied Science.