Below are my personal picks of outstanding papers in various areas of systems research.
[Tail] The Tail at Scale | DeTail | Perséphone
[Burst] Snappy | Breakwater | Valinor
[Disaggregation] ReFlex | Network Requirements | Decibel
[Archival] A DNA-Based Archival Storage System | DepSky | Pelican
[LLM] LLM in a flash | PagedAttention | vAttention | AI and Memory Wall
[Vector DB] Milvus
[Disaggregation] LegoOS
[Memory] Hoard
[Metric] COST
[Accelerator] The Accelerator Wall
[Chip Network] Modular Routing Design for Chiplet-Based Systems
[DCN] NetHide | Space Shuffle
[Host] Carousel
[Hashing] Cuckoo hashing | Othello
[ORAM] Obladi
[Stream] Popcorn