| 2021 | A case against (most) context switches. Jack Tigar Humphries, Kostis Kaffes, David Mazières, Christos Kozyrakis |
| 2021 | An incremental path towards a safer OS kernel. Jialin Li, Samantha Miller, Danyang Zhuo, Ang Chen, Jon Howell, Thomas E. Anderson |
| 2021 | BPF for storage: an exokernel-inspired approach. Yuhong Zhong, Hongyi Wang, Yu Jian Wu, Asaf Cidon, Ryan Stutsman, Amy Tai, Junfeng Yang |
| 2021 | Breakfast of champions: towards zero-copy serialization with NIC scatter-gather. Deepti Raghavan, Philip Alexander Levis, Matei Zaharia, Irene Zhang |
| 2021 | Burnt topics in operating systems. Malte Schwarzkopf |
| 2021 | Century-scale smart infrastructure. Dhananjay Jagtap, Nishant Bhaskar, Pat Pannuto |
| 2021 | CloudEx: a fair-access financial exchange in the cloud. Ahmad Ghalayini, Jinkun Geng, Vighnesh Sachidananda, Vinay Sriram, Yilong Geng, Balaji Prabhakar, Mendel Rosenblum, Anirudh Sivaraman |
| 2021 | Contextual concurrency control. Sujin Park, Irina Calciu, Taesoo Kim, Sanidhya Kashyap |
| 2021 | Cores that don't count. Peter H. Hochschild, Paul Turner, Jeffrey C. Mogul, Rama K. Govindaraju, Parthasarathy Ranganathan, David E. Culler, Amin Vahdat |
| 2021 | Doing more with less: training large DNN models on commodity servers for the masses. Youjie Li, Amar Phanishayee, Derek Murray, Nam Sung Kim |
| 2021 | Don't be a blockhead: zoned namespaces make work on conventional SSDs obsolete. Theano Stavrinos, Daniel S. Berger, Ethan Katz-Bassett, Wyatt Lloyd |
| 2021 | Fail-slow fault tolerance needs programming support. Andrew Yoo, Yuanli Wang, Ritesh Sinha, Shuai Mu, Tianyin Xu |
| 2021 | FlexOS: making OS isolation flexible. Hugo Lefeuvre, Vlad-Andrei Badoiu, Stefan Teodorescu, Pierre Olivier, Tiberiu Mosnoi, Razvan Deaconescu, Felipe Huici, Costin Raiciu |
| 2021 | From cloud computing to sky computing. Ion Stoica, Scott Shenker |
| 2021 | From warm to hot starts: leveraging runtimes for the serverless era. João Carreira, Sumer Kohli, Rodrigo Bruno, Pedro Fonseca |
| 2021 | HotOS '21: Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, June, 1-3, 2021. Sebastian Angel, Baris Kasikci, Eddie Kohler |
| 2021 | In reference to RPC: it's time to add distributed memory. Stephanie Wang, Benjamin Hindman, Ion Stoica |
| 2021 | Metastable failures in distributed systems. Nathan Bronson, Abutalib Aghayev, Aleksey Charapko, Timothy Zhu |
| 2021 | Privacy heroes need data disguises. Lillian Tsai, Malte Schwarzkopf, Eddie Kohler |
| 2021 | Reasoning about modern datacenter infrastructures using partial histories. Xudong Sun, Lalith Suresh, Aishwarya Ganesan, Ramnatthan Alagappan, Michael Gasch, Lilia Tang, Tianyin Xu |
| 2021 | Rethinking networking abstractions for cloud tenants. Sarah McClure, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Deepak Bansal, Jitendra Padhye |
| 2021 | Stop! Hammer time: rethinking our approach to rowhammer mitigations. Kevin Loughlin, Stefan Saroiu, Alec Wolman, Baris Kasikci |
| 2021 | Systems research is running out of time. Ali Najafi, Amy Tai, Michael Wei |
| 2021 | Systems trivia night. Vaastav Anand, Roberta De Viti, Jonathan Mace |
| 2021 | The Aurora operating system: revisiting the single level store. Emil Tsalapatis, Ryan Hancock, Tavian Barnes, Ali José Mashtizadeh |
| 2021 | The RESTless cloud. Nathan Pemberton, Johann Schleier-Smith, Joseph E. Gonzalez |
| 2021 | The future of hardware development: a perspective from systems researchers. Yiying Zhang |
| 2021 | The future of the shell: Unix and beyond. Michael Greenberg, Konstantinos Kallas, Nikos Vasilakis |
| 2021 | The last CPU. Joel Nider, Alexandra (Sasha) Fedorova |
| 2021 | Toward reconfigurable kernel datapaths with learned optimizations. Yiming Qiu, Hongyi Liu, Thomas E. Anderson, Yingyan Lin, Ang Chen |
| 2021 | Unix shell programming: the next 50 years. Michael Greenberg, Konstantinos Kallas, Nikos Vasilakis |
| 2021 | User-defined cloud. Yiying Zhang, Ardalan Amiri Sani, Guoqing Harry Xu |
| 2021 | We need kernel interposition over the network dataplane. Hugo Sadok, Zhipeng Zhao, Valerie Choung, Nirav Atre, Daniel S. Berger, James C. Hoe, Aurojit Panda, Justine Sherry |
| 2021 | Zerializer: towards zero-copy serialization. Adam Wolnikowski, Stephen Ibanez, Jonathan Stone, Changhoon Kim, Rajit Manohar, Robert Soulé |
| 2021 | mmapx: uniform memory protection in a heterogeneous world. Reto Achermann, David A. Cock, Roni Haecki, Nora Hossle, Lukas Humbel, Timothy Roscoe, Daniel David Schwyn |