Monday, March 17, 2014

ASPLOS experiences

I’m coming from the computer architecture community and this was the second time I attended ASPLOS. Now I’m sure that ASPLOS is the most exciting conference to attend and publish at, for the following reasons: (1) ASPLOS encourages interdisciplinary research, unlike most of the computer science conferences, (2) it’s an open minded conference that promotes creative ideas, (3) the amount of effort invested in the organization and the review process makes it a top conference.

What made this ASPLOS specifically good was:
1. The poster session - a nice way to clarify any misunderstandings
2. The session with lightening talks was a great idea which I hope will become practice
3. The debate on specialization was exciting and the outcome was fun
4. The ice-skating excursion was an awesome idea
5. SLC is a great place with exceptionally friendly people!
6. The following paper: “ASC: Automatically Scalable Computation”, which I found very creative. Hope to see more of papers like this one.

A couple of things that could have been better:
1. The first keynote would have been interesting had it been delivered 6-7 years ago.
2. It was probably not the best time of the year to be in SLC. A conference like ISCA would be more suitable for this place (it would be more green and less gray).
3. Parallel tracks: this is becoming a standard annoying feature of all conferences. The two sessions I was the most interested in attending (Approximate computing & Datacenters) were fully overlapping with each other.

All in all, this year’s ASPLOS was a fantastic experience. Many thanks to the organizers!

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