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Use when deciding whether a computer-systems project belongs at ATC (ACM SIGOPS Annual Technical Conference, formerly USENIX ATC) or should be routed to OSDI, SOSP, NSDI, EuroSys, FAST, or a workshop like HotOS/HotStorage — distinguishing ATC by its broad practical scope, its Deployed Systems / experience lane, the breadth-vs-selectivity trade, and the November/June calendar.
Passed 23 of 23 test cases with the skill, and 20 of 23 without it.
3 fixed20 passed either way0 still failing0 broke
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One of 3 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.
When comparing target deadlines for systems papers, what is the standard annual submission deadline window for USENIX ATC?
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| Mentions ATC June deadline window. | Missed | Passed |
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Decide the venue before drafting. ATC — the ACM SIGOPS Annual Technical Conference, for about fifty years the USENIX Annual Technical Conference — is the systems community's broad, practical venue. It emphasizes implementations and experimental results across the whole systems stack and takes a wider slice than the more selective OSDI/SOSP flagships. The decisive question is rarely "is this systems?" but "is this a solid, useful, measured systems result — and is ATC's breadth the right home versus a more specialized or more selective venue?"
| Signal in your project | Better home | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Solid, useful, measured systems work of broad interest; usefulness over novelty | ATC | The broad practical-systems venue; welcomes strong engineering + honest measurement |
| A large, novel systems contribution aimed at the flagship bar | OSDI / SOSP | More selective, novelty-forward; different calendars and no extended-abstract gate |
| The contribution is a networked-systems design (dataplane, protocols, RDMA, congestion) | NSDI | Networked-systems center; its own multi-deadline model |
| Broad systems, but EuroSys's cycle lands sooner or fits the community | EuroSys | The other broad SIGOPS-family systems conference; choose by calendar/pull |
| The core is file and storage systems depth | FAST | Storage's specialized home |
| A provocative idea or early design with argument but no built system | HotOS / HotStorage / workshop | Position/early-work venues; ATC wants a built, measured system |
| A real deployed system with practical lessons but no new idea | ATC (Deployed Systems lane) | ATC explicitly values experience papers |
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