Meta Research

Facebook is proud to be a Gold sponsor of the 28th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) 2021. The conference is taking place virtually from October 26 to 29. Facebook researchers will be presenting their research in oral presentations throughout the event during the days and times indicated below.

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Interested in learning more about the work we are doing in the Operating Systems space? Curious what our hiring process is like? Facebook recruiters and researchers will be available for a “booth” session via Zoom on Thursday, October 28th, 4:45 PM to 5:30 PM PST. More information is available on the Facebook Slack channel at SOSP.

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To express interest in future opportunities with Facebook, share your information with Facebook Recruiters below.

Facebook Research at SOSP 2021

Tuesday, October 26

4:00 PM PST

• AMA with Jason Flinn

Wednesday, October 27

Session 6: Flash storage

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM PST

• Kangaroo: Caching Billions of Tiny Objects on Flash (Won Best Paper Award at SOSP 2021)
  
  Sara McAllister (Carnegie Mellon University), Benjamin Berg (Carnegie Mellon University), Julian Tutuncu-Macias (Carnegie Mellon University), Juncheng Yang (Carnegie Mellon University), Sathya Gunasekar, Jimmy Lu, Daniel Berger (University of Washington/ Microsoft Research), Nathan Beckmann (Carnegie Mellon University), Gregory R. Ganger (Carnegie Mellon University)

Thursday October 28

Session 11: Resource allocation

9:15 AM – 10:15 AM PST

• RAS: Continuously Optimized Region-Wide Datacenter Resource Allocation
  
  Andrew Newell, Dimitrios Skarlatos (Facebook/Carnegie Mellon University), Jingyuan Fan, Pavan Kumar, Maxim Khutornenko, Mayank Pundir, Yirui Zhang, Mingjun Zhang, Yuanlai Liu, Linh Le, Brendon Daugherty, Apurva Samudra, Prashasti Baid, James Kneeland, Igor Kabiljo, Dmitry Shchukin, Andre Rodrigues, Scott Michelson, Ben Christensen, Kaushik Veeraraghavan, Chunqiang Tang

Session 12: Scale

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM PST

• Log-structured Protocols in Delos
  
  Mahesh Balakrishnan, Chen Shen, Ahmed Jafri, Suyog Mapara, David Geraghty, Jason Flinn, Vidhya Venkat, Ivailo Nedelchev, Santosh Ghosh, Mihir Dharamshi, Jingming Liu, Filip Gruszczynski, Jun Li, Rounak Tibrewal, Ali Zaveri, Rajeev Nagar, Ahmed Yossef, Francois Richard, Yee Jiun Song
• Shard Manager: A Generic Shard Management Framework for Geo-distributed Applications
  
  Sangmin Lee, Zhenhua Guo, Omer Sunercan, Jun Ying, Thawan Kooburat, Suryadeep Biswal, Jun Chen, Kun Huang, Yatpang Cheung, Yiding Zhou, Kaushik Veeraraghavan, Biren Damani, Pol Mauri Ruiz, Vikas Mehta, Chunqiang Tang

Friday, October 29th

Session 15: Serverless

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM PST

• Bladerunner: Stream Processing at Scale for a Live View of Backend Data Mutations at the Edge
  
  Jeff Barber, Ximing Yu, Laney Kuenzel Zamore, Shie Erlich, Jerry Lin, Vahid Jazayeri, Tony Savor (Google), Michael Stumm (University of Toronto)