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The 9th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, a.k.a. NSDI'12, will be held next week in San Jose, California. In this exclusive interview, Steven Gribble, NSDI'12 program co-chair, offers a preview of what attendees can expect from this year's event.
USENIX: What are some of the big themes or topics of NSDI'12, and how will they be addressed at the event?
Our guest blogger today, Carolyn Rowland, LISA '12 Program Chair, offers plenty of reasons why sys admins should write a paper and submit it to LISA '12:
The LOPSA-PICC Sysadmin Conference will be held May 11-12, 2012, New Brunswick, New Jersey. The early-bird discount was scheduled to end on March 30, but the deadline was extended by one week. Hurry and register if you want to save US$ 125.
This year has already been an exciting one for USENIX, and April hasn't even started yet. We're already planning for our summer and fall events, so here's a round up of some upcoming Call for Papers deadlines:
The 2012 LOPSA PICC conference will be held May 11-12, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency hotel in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The PICC committee announced the closing keynote speaker, Rebecca Mercuri, lead forensic expert at Notable Software, Inc. See the complete schedule on the PICC '12 site.
Luke Kanies, founder of Puppet and Puppet Labs, is a familiar face at USENIX LISA events. In a recent interview, Kanies explains why he thinks Puppet won the 2011 Configuration Management Tool in the LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards. "The biggest difference between Puppet and other tools is our focus on great design and user experience," he says.
3rd ACM SIGOPS Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSys 2012) Call for PapersSeoul, South Korea July 23-24th, 2012Building on the success of its 2010 and 2011 predecessors in New Delhi, India and Shanghai, China, APSys 2012 will be a lively forum for systems researchers and practitioners across the world to meet, interact, and collaborate with theirpeers from the Asia/Pacific region. We take a broad view of computer systems, and solicit papers on topics such as: