ACM SIGOPS publishes Seoul Report mapping systems research amid AI and hardware shifts
anaklimovic · x · 2026-11-13
ACM SIGOPS held its first Strategic Workshop alongside SOSP 2025 in Seoul, bringing together generations of systems researchers (including Butler Lampson, David Patterson, Ion Stoica, and Haibo Chen). The resulting Seoul Report is now open for community feedback before planned submission to CACM.
Key points:
- Longstanding challenges—isolation, predictable resource management, and reliable recovery—remain hard to achieve together in practical systems
- General-purpose performance scaling has slowed while domain-specific accelerators and new memory technologies fragment the hardware substrate
- AI is becoming both a major systems workload and a tool for building systems, each shaping the other
- The report also covers reliability, cloud/AI systems, and the evolving OS research agenda
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