-------- Original Message -------- Subject: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE supplemental posting (OS Review Changes, CFP for PlanetLab special topics issue) Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:11:26 -0700 From: Geoff Voelker voelker@CS.UCSD.EDU Reply-To: Geoff Voelker voelker@CS.UCSD.EDU To: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE@LISTSERV.ACM.ORG

Operating Systems Review

Starting with the January 2006 issue, the publication policy of the Operating System Review is changing. In particular, each issue will be organized around a theme and submissions will be solicited for that theme. Guest editors will often be chosen to solicit and review submissions for a special topics issue. We are interested in having a broad range of special topics reflecting both academic and industrial interests. Please send suggestions for special topics issues to the OSR editor, Jeanna Matthews (jnm@clarkson.edu).

The first special topics issue will be related to PlanetLab and Marc Fiuczynski (mef@cs.princeton.edu) will the guest editor. For this issue, we seek submissions on all aspects related to PlanetLab. Topics of interest, but not limited to, include:

- Mature long-running services currently operating on PlanetLab

- Management tools that ease the deployment of PlanetLab slices

- Network measurement tools

- Infrastructure services

- Debugging and monitoring related to PlanetLab

- Resource management, discovery, etc.

Papers will be evaluated by a review committee. The primary criteria for acceptance will be clarity of explanation and relationship to PlanetLab. This special issue does not have a predefined format or a target number of accepted papers, but there is a soft cap of roughly 84 pages of text devoted to papers. Papers should be double column including figures and tables in standard ACM format and submitted in printable postscript or pdf.

If you are interested in submitting to this issue of OSR, please send email to mef@cs.princeton.edu with a brief description of your submission by November 1st 2005. The final submission will be due November 15 2005.

Continuing the PlanetLab thread, the 2nd European PlanetLab meeting will be at EPFL in Lausanne, conveniently timed immediately after SOSP in Brighton:

PlanetLab Everywhere - "PlanetLab - future directions" ====================================================== Call for participation in the 2nd European PlanetLab meeting hosted jointly by EPFL and the Evergrow EU project.

Oct 27-28, 2005 Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) Lausanne, Switzerland

Workshop website: http://lsirwww.epfl.ch/PlanetLabEverywhere

Workshop outline: This workshop will explore several new directions to expand PlanetLab's user base to literally every researcher or student who wants to conduct a wide-area experiment and expand its hardware base to every machine on the planet. Topics at this workshop include merging clusters with PlanetLab, developments of private PlanetLab configurations, operating PlanetLab @ HOME via Xen/VMware/Intel-VT, and issues related to federating PlanetLab.

The goal of this meeting is to bring together users, developers, and researches interested in these topics and develop plans to independently or collaboratively move forward with projects to develop working prototypes in each area. Further it is intended to let participants discuss technical problems and exchange their experiences to improve the quality of cooperation in the PlanetLab community.

Workshop structure: We suggest a mix of talks, panel discussions, case study presentations, experience reports, demonstrators, and "bird-of-a-feather" sessions. Participants are invited to submit proposals until Oct 13, 2005

Please visit the workshop website (lsirwww.epfl.ch/PlanetLabEverywhere) for further information.

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