OS research in France

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OS research in France

• Gilles
• Muller

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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

7
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/