Lead or attend a BoF! Meet with your peers! Present new work! Don't miss these special activities designed to maximize the value of your time at the conference. The always popular evening Birds-of-a-Feather sessions are very informal gatherings of persons interested in a particular topic.
Vendor BoFs
Want to demonstrate a new product or discuss your company's latest technologies with OSDI '14 attendees? Host a Vendor BoF! These sponsored one-hour sessions give companies a chance to talk about products and proprietary technology—and they include promotional benefits. Email sponsorship@usenix.org if you're interested in sponsoring a Vendor BoF. Visit the Sponsorship page for more information about sponsorship opportunities.
Scheduling a BoF
To schedule a BoF, simply write the
BoF title as well as your name and affiliation on the BoF Board located
in the registration area in the Centennial Foyer. If you
have a description of our BoF you'd like posted on this Web page, please
schedule your BoF on the BoF board, then send its title, the
organizer's name and affiliation, and the date, time, and location of
the BoF to bofs@usenix.org with "OSDI '14 BoF" in the subject line.
Should CS Conferences Accept a *Lot* More Papers? John Ousterhout and Doug Terry Monday: 8:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m., Interlocken Ballroom
In recent years many people have expressed frustration with the reviewing process for systems conferences. The January, 2014 issue of CACM contains an article by Doug Terry entitled "Publish Now, Judge Later," in which he not only expressed concerns, but also proposed a solution, which is to increase significantly the number of papers accepted to conferences
(http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=206914). The purpose of this BOF is to get input from a broader audience on the conference acceptance process and Doug's suggestions, and to see if there is general agreement about a course of action. Several conferences (including OSDI) have already started moving in the direction Doug advocates, by increasing
the number of accepted papers. Should this trend continue or even accelerate? If so, how should we deal with related issues such as presenting all of the accepted papers in a single conference? We recommend that attendees read Doug's article before the BOF. In addition, bring a laptop or smart phone to the BOF: we will do a series of online polls to collect the opinions of
attendees.
PRObE - Updates and mini tutorial Andree Jacobson, New Mexico Consortium, and Garth Gibson, Carnegie Mellon University Tuesday: 8:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m., Spruce Room
PRObE (http://www.nmc-probe.org/) is the NSF funded systems research center where researchers can get access to very large scale systems, load their own OS images, and run experiments in which root access to nodes and serial console is a given. In this BoF we'll announce the availability of a new cluster (Nome) and give a brief mini-tutorial on how to get access to the resources and start an experiment on the clusters. Lots of research has already been done on the PRObE clusters, for some examples please refer to the publication record avaialble at http://www.nmc-probe.org/research/publications.
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