CCL Team at GCASR 2026

This week our lab was in Chicago for GCASR 2026—the Greater Chicago Area Systems Research Workshop (gcasr.org), a regional gathering focused on computer systems, from operating systems and distributed infrastructure to the tools that make large-scale science tractable. It is a friendly venue for students and faculty to share work in progress, compare notes on real systems problems, and meet peers from departments and labs around the Midwest.

The CCL makes this trip every year: Chicago is home base for GCASR, and showing up has become part of how we stay plugged into the systems community between the bigger conference cycles.

Each student on the team presented a research poster, as we typically do at this venue. The poster floor was busy, with good questions, fast feedback, and plenty of hallway conversations that do not fit on a slide deck. Between sessions, people attended invited talks and panels, swapped implementation details, and followed threads from scheduling and storage to workflows and AI-facing infrastructure.

Thanks to everyone who stopped by our posters and to the organizers for another well-run GCASR. We appreciated the insights, the introductions, and the chance to catch up with colleagues in person. We look forward to seeing familiar faces at GCASR 2027!