OS research in France

Gilles

Muller

OS research in France ?

Is there a future?

Gilles

Cassandra

Muller

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The French SIGOPS chapter Between (100-150) members (since 1997)

~ 4 events in a year

Award for the best PhD in systems

Student travel support for OSDI/SOSP

EW04 – 3.5 French papers– 1.5 accepted for presentation

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The sad side

Last paper from a French group in SOSP/OSDI– 1987 (Chorus)/2000 (Devil)

Many people no longer submit to system conferences– Why work for 6 months on a paper?– Easier strategies…

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OS research anymore? Where do people publish?

– middleware, software engineering, real-time systems, embedded systems, programming languages, parallelism

We are competing for positions with other domains– EW is labeled as a Workshop– Still EW is of a higher quality than many workshops

and conferences

Many of our colleagues do not care for OSes– Do we still need to teach OS?

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An European Conference in Systems

Provide more exposure to OS in Europe

Ease student travel/lower costs

Performance is not the only metric in Computer Science

A possible model ?– ECOOP vs OOPSLA

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Time for rotten eggs and tomatoes

4th French Conference on OSes

http://www.emn.fr/x-info/renpar2005/CFSE/cfse4/cfse4.html

Le Croisic, Presqu'île de Guérande, 6-8 April 2005

Together with: - RenPar'16 (Rencontres Francophones du Parallélisme) - SympAAA'2005 (SYMPosium en Architectures nouvelles de machines) - Journées Composants

http://www.emn.fr/x-info/renpar2005/