ASPLOS 2020 meeting in Lausanne is canceled because of COVID-19

…but Virtual ASPLOS 2020 is in full swing: please join the conversation using this link:
https://join.slack.com/t/asplos2020/shared_invite/zt-cgxs6950-E1buN2T7vH6nY5jjp63opQ

All talks are available here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsLWHLZB96VeVp3IVzvSH58ttVz_Anr7H

Please see the full proceedings available here: 
https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3373376

Awards Announced

• Most Influential Paper Award:
  • “Energy-efficient computing for wildlife tracking: design tradeoffs and early experiences with ZebraNet”,
    by Philo Juang (Princeton University), Hidekazu Oki (Princeton University), Yong Wang (Princeton University), Margaret Martonosi (Princeton University), Li Shiuan Peh (Princeton University), and Daniel Rubenstein (Princeton University)
  • “A comparison of software and hardware techniques for x86 virtualization”,
    by Keith Adams (VMWare) and Ole Agesen (VMWare)
• Best Paper Award:
  • “Orbital Edge Computing: Nanosatellite Constellations as a New Class of Computing System”,
    by Bradley Denby (Carnegie Mellon University) and Brandon Lucia (Carnegie Mellon University)
  • “IOctopus: Outsmarting Nonuniform DMA”,
    by Igor Smolyar (Technion — Israel Institute of Technology), Alex Markuze (Technion — Israel Institute of Technology), Boris Pismenny (Technion — Israel Institute of Technology & Mellanox), Haggai Eran (Technion — Israel Institute of Technology & Mellanox), Gerd Zellweger (VMware Research), Austin Bolen (Dell), Liran Liss (Mellanox), Adam Morrison (Tel Aviv University), and Dan Tsafrir (Technion — Israel Institute of Technology & VMware Research)
  • “Elastic Cuckoo Page Tables: Rethinking Virtual Memory Translation for Parallelism”,
    by Dimitrios Skarlatos (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Apostolos Kokolis (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Tianyin Xu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), and Josep Torrellas (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
  • “Challenging Sequential Bitstream Processing via Principled Bitwise Speculation”,
    by Junqiao Qiu (University of California, Riverside), Lin Jiang (University of California, Riverside), and Zhijia Zhao (University of California, Riverside)

Cancellation due to COVID-19

I am sorry to announce that ASPLOS 2020 and the associated symposium and workshops in Lausanne are canceled because of the COVID-19 outbreak.

There are three strong reasons to cancel ASPLOS:

1. Attendance is likely to be poor, at best. I was hoping for 400-500 people. We currently have a bit more than 300. I have heard from a few people who are reluctant to travel, but as yet, there has not been a rush to cancel. However, large companies (e.g., Amazon, Amgen, Nestlé, to name three in the news) are starting to tell their employees to avoid unnecessary or all travel. In the next two weeks, the number of companies (and universities) limiting travel will surely increase.

2. There is a significant chance that the Swiss government or EPFL will prevent the conference from occurring. Friday, the Swiss government banned gatherings of more than 1000 people, which caused the cancelation of the Geneva Auto Show next month. EPFL has banned people who visited China, Iran, South Korea, Singapore, and Northern Italy from its campus for two weeks after their visit (STCC is on the EPFL campus and affected by this rule). As the disease spreads, both regulations are likely to become stricter and will eventually prevent us from holding ASPLOS.

3. And, finally, I believe it is the responsible and proper action at this time. On Friday, the WHO elevated the risk of COVID-19 to “very high.” It is essential to take steps to reduce the spread of the virus. Handwashing and quarantine are two such steps, but avoiding large gatherings, particularly those involving people flying from far-flung places is another important measure to contain the virus’s spread.

Obviously, none of us involved with ASPLOS are happy with this decision, but we believe that it is the right one.

We will take the following steps:

1. We will refund the registration fee of all attendees later this week. Students who received travel support will have their non-refundable expenses paid.

2. We will ask all ASPLOS presenters to record a video of their conference talk. We will put them up on YouTube and the ACM DL along with the papers. The PC chairs, Luis and Karin, will be in touch with authors to provide them with guidelines for producing a high-quality video of their talk and help in putting it online.

3. We will create a Slack workspace with a discussion channel for each session, in which we will put the papers and videos, so the authors and attendees can discuss the papers and research. We will open this workspace up to the larger community, not just registered attendees.

We considered other, more interactive options (e.g. Zoom), but believe that the large number of time zones make this approach impractical without a great deal of thought and planning, which is obviously not possible in the limited time.

Several ASPLOS steering committee members have suggested and volunteered to arrange local meetings of people interested in ASPLOS, to hear local talks and discuss papers.

4. The workshops and VEE will make their own decisions about presentations and discussions, but a number are likely to follow in the footsteps of ASPLOS. The workshop chairs will be in touch with authors to inform them about next steps.

5. We are investigating the possibility of holding an ASPLOS session or day at related conferences (ISCCA, PLDI, OSDI) this year.

I am personally very unhappy and disappointed with this situation, as I was looking forward to seeing all of you in Lausanne. However, I am confident that it is the right decision and that we do not have another, responsible alternative. I hope that everyone will be able to visit lovely Lausanne in the near future!

If you have further questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.

James Larus
General Chair ASPLOS 2020
Dean and Professor, EPFL IC

ASPLOS Cancelation Letter.pdf

ASPLOS 2020

ASPLOS is the premier forum for interdisciplinary systems research, intersecting computer architecture, hardware and emerging technologies, programming languages and compilers, operating systems, and networking. The 25th ASPLOS will be held on March 16-20, 2020 in Lausanne, Switzerland, a beautiful town on the shores of Lake Geneva, conveniently located in the center of Europe, and at EPFL.

Important Dates

• • Abstract submissions: August 9, 2019 (4:59:59pm PDT)
  • Full paper submissions: August 16, 2019 (4:59:59pm PDT)
  • Author response: October 28-November 1, 2019
  • Workshop/Tutorial proposal submissions: November 4, 2019 (Correction: previously November 1, 2019)
  • Workshop/Tutorial notification: November 18, 2019
  • Notification: November 20, 2019
  • Artifact submission (optional): December 4, 2019
  • Student travel grant application deadline: January 17, 2020
  • Final copy deadline: January 20, 2020
  • Early registration deadline: February 24, 2020 (11:59pm CET)
  • Virtual Conference dates: March 16-20, 2020

ASPLOS 2019 Website Moved

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