[1][2][3] A number of notable systems were first published as OSDI papers, including MapReduce,[4] Bigtable,[5] Spanner,[6] and TensorFlow.
[7] Until the early 1990s, SOSP was the main venue for the systems community to meet and publish work, but it was held only once every two years.
In 1994, this led to the creation of OSDI as an alternative venue for years in which SOSP was not held.
[8] The idea came from Jay Lepreau, who also served as the first program chair.
This led to a community proposal to turn both into annual conferences,[8] which was accepted by SIGOPS.