Symposium on Operating Systems Principles explained

The Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), organized by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), is one of the most prestigious single-track academic conferences on operating systems.[1] [2]

Before 2023, SOSP was held every other year, alternating with the conference on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI); starting 2024, SOSP began to be held every year. The first SOSP was held in 1967. It is sponsored by the ACM's Special Interest Group on Operating Systems (SIGOPS).

History

The inaugural conference was held in Gatlinburg, Tennessee on 1–4 October 1967 at the Mountain View Hotel.[3] There were fifteen papers in total, of which three presentations were in the Computer Networks and Communications session.[4] Larry Roberts presented his plan for the ARPANET, a computer network for resource sharing, which at that point was based on Wesley Clark's proposal for a message switching network.[5] [6] [7] Jack Dennis from MIT discussed the merits of a more general data communications network. Roger Scantlebury, a member of Donald Davies' team from the UK National Physical Laboratory, presented their research on packet switching in a high-speed computer network, and referenced the work of Paul Baran.[8] [9] [10] At this seminal meeting,[11] [12] [13] Scantlebury proposed packet switching for use in the ARPANET and persuaded Roberts the economics were favorable to message switching.[14] [15] [16] [17] [18] The ARPA team enthusiastically received the idea and Roberts incorporated it into the ARPANET design.[19] [20] [21] [22]

In total, 29 conferences have been held, seven of which were outside the USA. The first conference held outside the USA was in Saint-Malo, France in 1997. Other countries to have hosted the conference are Canada, the UK, Portugal, China and Germany.

List of conferences

From 1967 to 2023, the conferences were held every two years, with the first SOSP conference taking place in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.[23] Beginning in 2024, SOSP the conference is held every year.

No Year Dates Location
11967 Oct 1-4 Gatlinburg, TN USA
21969 Oct 20-22 Princeton, NJ USA
31971 Oct 18-20 Palo Alto, CA USA
41973 Oct 15-17 Yorktown Heights, NY USA
51975 Nov 19-21 Austin, TX USA
61977 Nov 16-18 West Lafayette, IN USA
71979 Dec 10-12 Pacific Grove, CA USA
81981 Dec 14-16 Pacific Grove, CA USA
91983 Oct 10-13 Bretton Woods, NH USA
101985 Dec 1-4 Orcas Island, WA USA
111987 Nov 8-11 Austin, TX USA
121989 Dec 3-6 Litchfield Park, AZ USA
131991 Oct 13-16 Pacific Grove, CA USA
141993 Dec 5-8 Asheville, NC USA
151995 Dec 3-6 Copper Mountain Resort, CO USA
161997 Oct 5-8 Saint-Malo, France
171999 Dec 12-15 Kiawah Island Resort, SC USA
182001 Oct 21-24 Chateau Lake Louise, Banff, Canada
192003 Oct 19-22 Bolton Landing, NY USA
202005 Oct 23-26 Brighton, UK
212007 Oct 14-17 Stevenson, WA USA
222009 Oct 11-14 Big Sky, MT USA
232011 Oct 23-26 Cascais, Portugal
242013 Nov 3-6 Farmington, PA USA
252015 Oct 4-7 Monterey, CA USA
262017 Oct 28-31 Shanghai, China
272019 Oct 27-30 Huntsville, Ontario, Canada
282021Oct 25-28Virtual Event
292023Oct 23-26Koblenz, Germany
302024Nov 4-6Austin, TX USA

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Open Kernel Labs Paper on Formal Verification Wins Top Prize at Prestigious SOSP Conference : Open Kernel Labs. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110219113850/http://www.ok-labs.com/releases/release/open-kernel-labs-paper-on-formal-verification-wins-top-prize-at-prestigious. 2011-02-19. 2010-04-18.
  2. Web site: In Silicon Valley for the summer | /Dev/Rant . www.thegibson.org . 25 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100701220325/http://www.thegibson.org/blog/archives/27 . 1 July 2010 . dead.
  3. Book: Internet Daemons: Digital Communications Possessed (Electronic Mediations). 2018. Univ Of Minnesota Press. Minneapolis,Minnesota USA. 9781452957579. en.
  4. Proceedings of the ACM symposium on Operating System Principles - SOSP '67. ACM Conferences . 1967. ACM Press. New York, New York, USA. en. 10.1145/800001. Gosden. J. Randell. B.
  5. Web site: A Very Short History Of The Internet And The Web. Press. Gil. Forbes. en. 2020-02-07. Roberts’ proposal that all host computers would connect to one another directly ... was not endorsed ... Wesley Clark ... suggested to Roberts that the network be managed by identical small computers, each attached to a host computer. Accepting the idea, Roberts named the small computers dedicated to network administration ‘Interface Message Processors’ (IMPs), which later evolved into today’s routers..
  6. Book: Roberts, Lawrence. 1967. Multiple Computer Networks and Intercomputer Communications. Multiple computer networks and intercomputer communication. https://people.mpi-sws.org/~gummadi/teaching/sp07/sys_seminar/arpanet.pdf. 3.1–3.6. 10.1145/800001.811680. 17409102. Thus the set of IMP's, plus the telephone lines and data sets would constitute a message switching network.
  7. Web site: SRI Project 5890-1; Networking (Reports on Meetings).[1967]]. web.stanford.edu. 2020-02-15. W. Clark's message switching proposal (appended to Taylor's letter of April 24, 1967 to Engelbart)were reviewed..
  8. Book: Davies . D. W. . Bartlett . K. A. . Scantlebury . R. A. . Wilkinson . P. T. . A digital communication network for computers giving rapid response at remote terminals . October 1967 . Proceedings of the ACM symposium on Operating System Principles - SOSP '67 . https://people.mpi-sws.org/~gummadi/teaching/sp07/sys_seminar/how_did_erope_blow_this_vision.pdf . Association for Computing Machinery . 2.1–2.17 . 10.1145/800001.811669 . 978-1-4503-7370-8.
  9. Book: Hafner . Katie . Where wizards stay up late : the origins of the Internet . Lyon . Matthew . 1996 . New York : Simon & Schuster . Internet Archive . 978-0-684-81201-4 . 76–78 . Roberts also learned from Scantlebury, for the first time, of the work that had been done by Paul Baran at RAND a few years earlier..
  10. Web site: On packet switching . 2024-01-08 . Net History . [Scantlebury said] Clearly Donald and Paul Baran had independently come to a similar idea albeit for different purposes. Paul for a survivable voice/telex network, ours for a high-speed computer network. ... We referenced Baran's paper in our 1967 Gatlinburg ACM paper. You will find it in the References. Therefore I am sure that we introduced Baran's work to Larry (and hence the BBN guys)..
  11. Book: Post, The Washington . The Threatened Net: How the Web Became a Perilous Place . 2015-11-10 . Diversion Books . 978-1-68230-136-4 . en . Historians credit seminal insights to Welsh scientist Donald W. Davies and American engineer Paul Baran.
  12. Book: Encyclopedia of 20th-Century Technology . Routledge . 2005 . 9781135455514 . Hempstead . C. . 1, A-L . 574 . It was a seminal meeting . Worthington . W..
  13. Book: Moschovitis, Christos J. P. . History of the Internet: A Chronology, 1843 to the Present . 1999 . ABC-CLIO . 978-1-57607-118-2 . 58–9.
  14. Book: Naughton . John . A Brief History of the Future: The origins of the Internet . 2015 . Hachette . 978-1474602778 . they lacked one vital ingredient. Since none of them had heard of Paul Baran they had no serious idea of how to make the system work. And it took an English outfit to tell them. ... Larry Roberts paper was the first public presentation of the ARPANET concept as conceived with the aid of Wesley Clark ... Looking at it now, Roberts paper seems extraordinarily, well, vague..
  15. Book: Waldrop, M. Mitchell . The Dream Machine . 2018 . Stripe Press . 978-1-953953-36-0 . 285–6 . en . Scantlebury and his companions from the NPL group were happy to sit up with Roberts all that night, sharing technical details and arguing over the finer points..
  16. Barber . Derek . Spring 1993 . The Origins of Packet Switching . The Bulletin of the Computer Conservation Society . 5 . 0958-7403 . 6 September 2017 . Roger actually convinced Larry that what he was talking about was all wrong and that the way that NPL were proposing to do it was right. I've got some notes that say that first Larry was sceptical but several of the others there sided with Roger and eventually Larry was overwhelmed by the numbers..
  17. Web site: Oral-History:Donald Davies & Derek Barber . 13 April 2016 . the ARPA network is being implemented using existing telegraphic techniques simply because the type of network we describe does not exist. It appears that the ideas in the NPL paper at this moment are more advanced than any proposed in the USA.
  18. Needham . Roger M. . 2002-12-01 . Donald Watts Davies, C.B.E. 7 June 1924 – 28 May 2000 . Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society . 48 . 87–96 . 10.1098/rsbm.2002.0006 . 72835589 . Larry Roberts presented a paper on early ideas for what was to become ARPAnet. This was based on a store-and-forward method for entire messages, but as a result of that meeting the NPL work helped to convince Roberts that packet switching was the way forward..
  19. Book: Abbate. Jane. Inventing the Internet. 2000. MIT Press. 0262261332. 38. The NPL group influenced a number of American computer scientists in favor of the new technique, and they adopted Davies's term "packet switching" to refer to this type of network. Roberts also adopted some specific aspects of the NPL design..
  20. Book: Gillies . James . How the Web was Born: The Story of the World Wide Web . Cailliau . Robert . 2000 . Oxford University Press . 978-0192862075 . 25 . Roberts was quick to latch on to a good idea. 'Suddenly I learned how to route packets,' he later said of the Gatlinburg conference. . registration.
  21. Web site: Shapiro: Computer Network Meeting of October 9–10, 1967 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150627133802/https://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/library/extra4/sloan/mousesite/Archive/Post68/ARPANETMeeting1167.html . 27 June 2015 . stanford.edu.
  22. Web site: Donald Davies . 2020-02-15 . Internet Hall of Frame . America’s Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA), and the ARPANET received his network design enthusiastically.
  23. Web site: Symposium on Operating Systems Principles. SOSP.ORG. 2020-02-15.

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