BIRDS-OF-A-FEATHER SESSIONS

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 '08 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. Click here for more information about sponsorship opportunities.

Scheduling a BoF
BoFs may be scheduled during the conference at the registration desk or in advance by contacting bofs@usenix.org with "OSDI '08 BoF" in the subject line and the following information in the body of the email:

1. BoF title
2. Organizer name and affiliation
3. Date and time preference
4. Brief description of BoF (optional)

BoF Schedule (as of November 25, 2008)

BoF Descriptions

Large Scale Infrastructure Testing
Garth Gibson, Carnegie Mellon University
Tuesday, December 9, 8:30 p.m.–9:30 p.m., Dockside Room

As more and more of us target infrastructure research on large scale (1000+ nodes) datacenter clusters and fault tolerance in these large scale clusters, we face testing our schemes on smallish (~100 nodes) dedicated local resources, large shared restricted-modification production resources (eg. Amazon, OpenCirrus), or not-so-large shared systems-modifiable resources (eg. Emulab).  This BOF is intended as a forum to discuss how datacenter infrastructure research can be adequately tested at large scale, and to discuss how we fill any missing capabilities.

Systems Research at AMD Vendor BoF
Tuesday, December 9, 7:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m., Dockside Room