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I take it to imply the 'system' they are programming is the distributed/concurrent complex they are running. To other people, 'system' is below that, and this

by dbrower 12y ago

I take it to imply the 'system' they are programming is the distributed/concurrent complex they are running. To other people, 'system' is below that, and this is application programming, or "middleware" It seems like at any level, you write the system, and applications are above. -dB

seanmcdirmid 12y ago
What else does the systems community do these days besides concurrent distributed systems?
- weland 12y ago
  Power management and flash/SSD-aware filesystems are also quite the rage.
  - seanmcdirmid 12y ago
    Ya: distributed computing, storage, and power are hot. Where did all the kernel research go?
    - weland 12y ago
      Much of it happens with different objectives, or at different levels, in the context of computing, storage and power management. See Akaros for example: http://akaros.cs.berkeley.edu/akaros-web/overview.php http://akaros.cs.berkeley.edu/akaros-web/overview.php .