For those who haven't seen it yet, the call for papers for the SYSTOR 2009 Israeli Experimental Systems Conference is out. Better get started working on those papers!

Planned, prepared for and executed Yael's 2-year birthday. Splendid success, including several tipsy family members. Pictures to come. Cleaned up afterwards and eventually crashed. Woke back up at 2:30 AM and tried to convince Yael to go back to sleep until 4 AM. Re-crashed.

Two years ago
Orna and I embarked on one of the
great projects of our lives.

Two years later, it is going splendidly.


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I was working from home today and didn't have anyone to talk to. So I finally bit the bullet and figured, why talk to *someone*, when I can talk to *everyone*? Hence, muliby on twitter. Leave a comment if you're on twitter.

It is my great pleasure to invite all of you to submit papers and participate in the First Workshop on I/O Virtualization (WIOV '08), to be held in conjunction with OSDI '08.

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I'm in lovely Boston this week. Originally I was supposed to attend the Xen Summit North America 2008, MMCS 2008, and USENIX 2008, but I ended up missing the Xen Summit completely and making a just-in-time appearance at MMCS, due to some trouble at home. Thankfully everything is fine now ( Read more... )

Still haven't decided which conferences to submit which paper to, except SYSML which is the obvious venue for the follow-on paper to our Vigilant work.

ASPLOS '09: August 1st, VEE '09: August 29, SYSML '08: Sep 26th, EuroSys '09: Nov 7th, HOTOS '09: Jan 13th, 2009.

On Thursday this week I'll be giving a talk at the 2008 Israeli Networking Seminar on "Networked I/O for Virtual Machines: Approaches and Challenges."

Next month I'll be returning to one of my favorite cities in the world, Boston, for the 2008 Xen Summit North America, the Workshop on Managed Many-Core Systems (MMCS) and USENIX ATC.

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Simon L. Peyton Jones, John Hughes, and John Launchbury , Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Scotland, "How to write a great research paper".

Link via Silvia Miksch's excellent page of tips on how to do research.

I spent a couple of pleasant hours today trying to wrap my head around KVM's MMU code. After reading "The Shadowy Depths of the KVM MMU", it suddenly starts to - almost - makes sense.

The tentative agenda for the 2008 KVM forum has been published and is chock-full of awesomeness.