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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.

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# ATC Topic Selection

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?"**

## What ATC rewards

- **Built and measured systems** across a broad scope: operating systems, runtime systems, parallel
  and distributed systems, storage, networking, security and privacy, virtualization,
  hardware-software interaction, performance and workload characterization, reliability,
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