Editorial commentary on distributed-systems research
A systematic review of 122 papers on serverless HPC, AI, and big data maps eight years of research trying to fit compute-intensive workloads onto FaaS.
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A USENIX ATC 2025 paper called Barre shows how three small changes to an old AIMD control loop cut AI-training congestion at 400 Gbps with no new hardware.
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Leaderless and multi-leader consensus is reaching production in Cassandra's Accord and Multi-Raft systems — and it changes what a cloud data API can promise …
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SoCC's 17th edition meets in Singapore in November 2026. Its call for papers is the clearest available statement of what cloud research now considers in scope.
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OSDI's 20th edition met in Seattle in July 2026. The papers that matter for cloud infrastructure show a field reorganizing itself around LLM serving economics.
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Kubernetes v1.36 moves gang scheduling into kube-scheduler itself with a decoupled PodGroup API — resolving a decades-old coscheduling problem inside the …
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Archive page for the C4BB4C project — applying cloud infrastructure to computational biology workloads.
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Archive page for the TinOva project — hypervisor abstraction research from the DSA Research Group.
Read more →A systematic review of 122 papers on serverless HPC, AI, and big data maps eight years of research trying to fit compute-intensive workloads onto FaaS.
Read more →A USENIX ATC 2025 paper called Barre shows how three small changes to an old AIMD control loop cut AI-training congestion at 400 Gbps with no new hardware.
Read more →Kubernetes v1.36 moves gang scheduling into kube-scheduler itself with a decoupled PodGroup API — resolving a decades-old coscheduling problem inside the …
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