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The '''Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation''' ('''OSDI'''), organized by [[USENIX]], is one of the two top academic conferences on systems research, along with [[Symposium on Operating Systems Principles|SOSP]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cs.cornell.edu/andru/csconf.html|title=Top Publication Venues in Computer Science}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=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/|title=OSDI 2022 highlights from MSR Asia: A peak at the latest research in computer systems}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://research.google/blog/google-at-usenix-symposium-on-operating-systems-design-and-implementation-osdi-10/|title=Google at USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI ‘10)}}</ref> A number of notable systems were first published as OSDI papers, including [[MapReduce]],<ref>{{cite conference|url=https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi-04/mapreduce-simplified-data-processing-large-clusters|title=MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters|author=Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat|conference=6th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI'04)|year=2004|conference-url=https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedings/osdi04/|___location=San Francisco, CA}}</ref>, [[Bigtable]],<ref>{{cite conference|url=https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi-06/bigtable-distributed-storage-system-structured-data|title=Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data|author=Fay Chang, Jeffrey Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Wilson C. Hsieh, Deborah A. Wallach, Mike Burrows, Tushar Chandra, Andrew Fikes, and Robert E. Gruber|conference=7th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI'06)|year=2006|conference-url=https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/osdi06/|___location=Seattle, WA}}</ref>, [[Spanner (database)|Spanner]],<ref>{{cite conference|url=https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi12/technical-sessions/presentation/corbett|title=Spanner: Google’s Globally-Distributed Database|author=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|conference=10th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI'12)|year=2012|conference-url=https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi12/|___location=Hollywood, CA}}</ref>, and [[TensorFlow]].<ref>{{cite conference|url=https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi16/technical-sessions/presentation/abadi|title=TensorFlow: A System for Large-Scale Machine Learning|author=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|conference=12th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI'16)|year=2016|conference-url=https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi16|___location=Savannah, GA}}</ref>.

==History==

Until the early 1990s, [[SOSP]] 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.<ref name=annual-proposal>{{cite web|url=https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfXKkG7YFs-5lWUwVy-Yk_SBSiqxfl-L2oN6wjVCEOqwJVhIg/viewform|title=Proposal for an Annual SOSP and OSDI}}</ref> The idea came from [[Jay Lepreau]], who also served as the first program chair.<ref>{{cite journal|journal=ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review|volume=39|issue=1|pages=45-46|doi=10.1145/1496091.1496098|title=In memoriam: Jay Lepreau, 1952-2008}}</ref> In the following years, OSDI and SOSP took turns as the top-tier systems conference of the year; both published papers of similar depth and quality, with OSDI putting somewhat more emphasis on implementation.<ref>{{cite conference|author=Brian Bershad and Jeff Mogul|title=Message from the Program Co-Chairs|conference=Proceedings of the 7th symposium on Operating systems design and implementation|year=2006}}</ref> 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,<ref>{{cite web|urlname=https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfXKkG7YFsannual-5lWUwVy-Yk_SBSiqxfl-L2oN6wjVCEOqwJVhIgproposal/viewform|title=Proposal for an Annual SOSP and OSDI}}</ref>, which was accepted by [[SIGOPS]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sigops.org/2020/annual-osdi-experiments/|title=SIGOPS’ Response to Community Feedback on the Frequency of the SOSP and OSDI|publisher=ACM SIGOPS|access-date=17 August 2024}}</ref> As a result, OSDI became an annual conference in 2021.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.usenix.org/blog/announcement-about-osdi|title=OSDI is going annual|publisher=USENIX|access-date=17 August 2024}}</ref>

==Locations==

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* 2025: [[Boston, MA]]

* 2024: [[Santa Clara, CA]]

* 2023: [[Boston, MA]]

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