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<h2 id="history">History</h2> <p>Until the early 1990s, <a href="/facts/SOSP/VhguUHDg">SOSP</a> was the main venue for the systems community to meet and publish work, but it was held only once every two years. In 1994, this led to the creation of OSDI as an alternative venue for years in which SOSP was not held.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a> The idea came from <a href="/facts/Jay_Lepreau/fkfEvM3q">Jay Lepreau</a>, who also served as the first program chair.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a> In the following years, OSDI and SOSP took turns as the top-tier systems conference of the year. However, the systems community kept growing and, as single-track conferences, both could accept only a limited number of papers; thus, acceptance rates dropped significantly. This led to a community proposal to turn both into annual conferences,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a> which was accepted by <a href="/facts/SIGOPS/Wqy8SxNr">SIGOPS</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a> As a result, OSDI became an annual conference in 2021.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12"><sup>12</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="locations">Locations</h2> <ul><li>2024: <a href="/facts/Santa_Clara%2c_CA/lkQTssCF">Santa Clara, CA</a></li> <li>2023: <a href="/facts/Boston%2c_MA/exjfn6xf">Boston, MA</a></li> <li>2022: <a href="/facts/Carlsbad%2c_CA/CCFdJomL">Carlsbad, CA</a></li> <li>2021: (virtual)</li> <li>2020: (virtual)</li> <li>2018: <a href="/facts/Carlsbad%2c_CA/CCFdJomL">Carlsbad, CA</a></li> <li>2016: <a href="/facts/Savannah%2c_GA/korPDPf2">Savannah, GA</a></li> <li>2014: <a href="/facts/Broomfield%2c_CO/uwln6UKK">Broomfield, CO</a></li> <li>2012: <a href="/facts/Hollywood%2c_CA/hF4zF5n6">Hollywood, CA</a></li> <li>2010: <a href="/facts/Vancouver%2c_BC/rn2AKA1n">Vancouver, BC</a></li> <li>2008: <a href="/facts/San_Diego%2c_CA/YFUP7gB9">San Diego, CA</a></li> <li>2006: <a href="/facts/Seattle%2c_WA/7lYIrCa6">Seattle, WA</a></li> <li>2004: <a href="/facts/San_Francisco%2c_CA/cb9l7hbC">San Francisco, CA</a></li> <li>2002: <a href="/facts/Boston%2c_MA/exjfn6xf">Boston, MA</a></li> <li>2000: <a href="/facts/San_Diego%2c_CA/YFUP7gB9">San Diego, CA</a></li> <li>1999: <a href="/facts/New_Orleans%2c_LA/IgCn61KH">New Orleans, LA</a></li> <li>1996: <a href="/facts/Seattle%2c_WA/7lYIrCa6">Seattle, WA</a></li> <li>1994: <a href="/facts/Monterey%2c_CA/ssUz4gN8">Monterey, CA</a></li></ul> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/List_of_computer_science_conferences/raKQx9Vl">List of computer science conferences</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Top Publication Venues in Computer Science". <a href="https://www.cs.cornell.edu/andru/csconf.html" target="_blank">https://www.cs.cornell.edu/andru/csconf.html</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"OSDI 2022 highlights from MSR Asia: A peak at the latest research in computer systems". <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/lab/microsoft-research-asia/articles/osdi-2022-highlights-from-msr-asia-a-peak-at-the-latest-research-in-computer-systems/" target="_blank">https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/lab/microsoft-research-asia/articles/osdi-2022-highlights-from-msr-asia-a-peak-at-the-latest-research-in-computer-systems/</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"Google at USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '10)". <a href="https://research.google/blog/google-at-usenix-symposium-on-operating-systems-design-and-implementation-osdi-10/" target="_blank">https://research.google/blog/google-at-usenix-symposium-on-operating-systems-design-and-implementation-osdi-10/</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat (2004). MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters. 6th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI'04). San Francisco, CA. <a href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi-04/mapreduce-simplified-data-processing-large-clusters" target="_blank">https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi-04/mapreduce-simplified-data-processing-large-clusters</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Fay Chang, Jeffrey Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Wilson C. Hsieh, Deborah A. Wallach, Mike Burrows, Tushar Chandra, Andrew Fikes, and Robert E. Gruber (2006). Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data. 7th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI'06). Seattle, WA.{{cite conference}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) <a href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi-06/bigtable-distributed-storage-system-structured-data" target="_blank">https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi-06/bigtable-distributed-storage-system-structured-data</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>James C. Corbett, Jeffrey Dean, Michael Epstein, Andrew Fikes, Christopher Frost, JJ Furman, Sanjay Ghemawat, Andrey Gubarev, Christopher Heiser, Peter Hochschild, Wilson Hsieh, Sebastian Kanthak, Eugene Kogan, Hongyi Li, Alexander Lloyd, Sergey Melnik, David Mwaura, David Nagle, Sean Quinlan, Rajesh Rao, Lindsay Rolig, Yasushi Saito, Michal Szymaniak, Christopher Taylor, Ruth Wang, and Dale Woodford (2012). Spanner: Google’s Globally-Distributed Database. 10th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI'12). Hollywood, CA.{{cite conference}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) <a href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi12/technical-sessions/presentation/corbett" target="_blank">https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi12/technical-sessions/presentation/corbett</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Martín Abadi, Paul Barham, Jianmin Chen, Zhifeng Chen, Andy Davis, Jeffrey Dean, Matthieu Devin, Sanjay Ghemawat, Geoffrey Irving, Michael Isard, Manjunath Kudlur, Josh Levenberg, Rajat Monga, Sherry Moore, Derek G. Murray, Benoit Steiner, Paul Tucker, Vijay Vasudevan, Pete Warden, Martin Wicke, Yuan Yu, and Xiaoqiang Zheng (2016). TensorFlow: A System for Large-Scale Machine Learning. 12th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI'16). Savannah, GA.{{cite conference}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) <a href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi16/technical-sessions/presentation/abadi" target="_blank">https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi16/technical-sessions/presentation/abadi</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>"Proposal for an Annual SOSP and OSDI". <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfXKkG7YFs-5lWUwVy-Yk_SBSiqxfl-L2oN6wjVCEOqwJVhIg/viewform" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfXKkG7YFs-5lWUwVy-Yk_SBSiqxfl-L2oN6wjVCEOqwJVhIg/viewform</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>"In memoriam: Jay Lepreau, 1952-2008". ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review. 39 (1): 45–46. doi:10.1145/1496091.1496098. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/Doi_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:10"><p>"Proposal for an Annual SOSP and OSDI". <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfXKkG7YFs-5lWUwVy-Yk_SBSiqxfl-L2oN6wjVCEOqwJVhIg/viewform" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfXKkG7YFs-5lWUwVy-Yk_SBSiqxfl-L2oN6wjVCEOqwJVhIg/viewform</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:11"><p>"SIGOPS' Response to Community Feedback on the Frequency of the SOSP and OSDI". ACM SIGOPS. Retrieved 17 August 2024. <a href="https://www.sigops.org/2020/annual-osdi-experiments/" target="_blank">https://www.sigops.org/2020/annual-osdi-experiments/</a> <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:12"><p>"OSDI is going annual". USENIX. Retrieved 17 August 2024. <a href="https://www.usenix.org/blog/announcement-about-osdi" target="_blank">https://www.usenix.org/blog/announcement-about-osdi</a> <a href="#fnref:12" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>