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OSDI 2026

OSDI 2026 paper on the USENIX proceedings style, two-column, anonymous for review.

2026 · 12 pages + unlimited references · USENIX template (freely distributed style file)

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\documentclass[letterpaper,twocolumn,10pt]{article}

% hyperref must load before usenix.sty.
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{usenix}

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb}
\usepackage{booktabs}

\begin{document}

\title{\Large \bf Your Paper Title Here}

\author{
{\rm Anonymous Author(s)}\\
Anonymous Institution
}

\maketitle

\subsection*{Abstract}
One paragraph summarizing the systems problem, the design, and the headline result.

\section{Introduction}
Motivate the problem and state the contribution. Prior systems address parts of the design space~\cite{doe2024system}, and recent work revisits the bottleneck at datacenter scale~\cite{smith2025datacenter}.

\section{Design}
Describe the architecture and key mechanisms. Throughput under the model is
\begin{equation}
T = \frac{B}{L + Q/\mu},
\label{eq:throughput}
\end{equation}
where $B$ is batch size, $L$ base latency, and $Q/\mu$ queueing delay.

\section{Evaluation}
Describe the testbed and workloads. Headline numbers go in Table~\ref{tab:results}.

\begin{table}[htbp]
\caption{End-to-end throughput and tail latency.}
\label{tab:results}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{lcc}
\toprule
System & Throughput (Kops/s) & p99 latency (ms) \\
\midrule
Baseline~\cite{doe2024system} & 120 & 9.5 \\
Ours & \textbf{310} & \textbf{3.1} \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\end{table}

\section{Conclusion}
Recap the contribution and note future directions.

This is a starter file. Ask the agent in the chat to draft sections, sketch the design, or typeset your existing notes into this format.

{\footnotesize
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{references}}

\end{document}

Libraries and docs

references.bib555 B

@inproceedings{doe2024system,
  author    = {Doe, Jane and Roe, Richard},
  title     = {An Operating System Mechanism for Examples},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI)},
  year      = {2024},
  pages     = {1--16}
}

@inproceedings{smith2025datacenter,
  author    = {Smith, John and Lee, Ada},
  title     = {Revisiting the Bottleneck at Datacenter Scale},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC)},
  year      = {2025},
  pages     = {201--216}
}

usenix.sty3.7 KBVendored from www.usenix.org on 2026-05-26.

% usenix.sty - to be used with latex2e for USENIX.
% To use this style file, look at the template usenix2019_v3.1.tex
%
% $Id: usenix.sty,v 1.2 2005/02/16 22:30:47 maniatis Exp $
%
% The following definitions are modifications of standard article.sty
% definitions, arranged to do a better job of matching the USENIX
% guidelines.
% It will automatically select two-column mode and the Times-Roman
% font.
%
% 2018-12-19 [for ATC'19]: add packages to help embed all fonts in
%   pdf; to improve appearance (hopefully); to make refs and citations
%   clickable in pdf
%
% 2020-09-21 file updated to comment out flushend and make it optional

%
% USENIX papers are two-column.
% Times-Roman font is nice if you can get it (requires NFSS,
% which is in latex2e.

\if@twocolumn\else\input twocolumn.sty\fi
\usepackage{mathptmx}  % times roman, including math (where possible)

% hopefully embeds all fonts in pdf
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{pslatex}

% appearance
% microtype removed: xetex (tectonic) does not support kerning/spacing features.

% Uncomment the following line if you want the columns of the last page 
% equal in size. But note that doing so may cause issues with some 
% document-generating tools.
% \usepackage{flushend}

% refs and bib
\usepackage{cite}               % order multiple entries in \cite{...}
% breakurl removed: pdftex-only (PostScript). Long URLs in refs may not break.
\usepackage{url}                % allow \url in bibtex for clickable links
\usepackage{xcolor}             % color definitions, to be use for...
\usepackage[]{hyperref}         % ...clickable refs within pdf...
\hypersetup{                    % ...like so
  colorlinks,
  linkcolor={green!80!black},
  citecolor={red!70!black},
  urlcolor={blue!70!black}
}

%
% USENIX wants margins of: 0.75" sides, 1" bottom, and 1" top.
% 0.33" gutter between columns.
% Gives active areas of 7" x 9"
%
\setlength{\textheight}{9.0in}
\setlength{\columnsep}{0.33in}
\setlength{\textwidth}{7.00in}

\setlength{\topmargin}{0.0in}

\setlength{\headheight}{0.0in}

\setlength{\headsep}{0.0in}

\addtolength{\oddsidemargin}{-0.25in}
\addtolength{\evensidemargin}{-0.25in}

% USENIX wants no page numbers for camera-ready papers, so that they can
% number them themselves.  But submitted papers should have page numbers
% for the reviewers' convenience.
% 
%
% \pagestyle{empty}

%
% USENIX titles are in 14-point bold type, with no date, and with no
% change in the empty page headers.  The whole author section is 12 point
% italic--- you must use {\rm } around the actual author names to get
% them in roman.
%
\def\maketitle{\par
 \begingroup
   \renewcommand\thefootnote{\fnsymbol{footnote}}%
   \def\@makefnmark{\hbox to\z@{$\m@th^{\@thefnmark}$\hss}}%
    \long\def\@makefntext##1{\parindent 1em\noindent
            \hbox to1.8em{\hss$\m@th^{\@thefnmark}$}##1}%
   \if@twocolumn
     \twocolumn[\@maketitle]%
     \else \newpage
     \global\@topnum\z@
     \@maketitle \fi\@thanks
 \endgroup
 \setcounter{footnote}{0}%
 \let\maketitle\relax
 \let\@maketitle\relax
 \gdef\@thanks{}\gdef\@author{}\gdef\@title{}\let\thanks\relax}

\def\@maketitle{\newpage
 \vbox to 2.5in{
 \vspace*{\fill}
 \vskip 2em
 \begin{center}%
  {\Large\bf \@title \par}%
  \vskip 0.375in minus 0.300in
  {\large\it
   \lineskip .5em
   \begin{tabular}[t]{c}\@author
   \end{tabular}\par}%
 \end{center}%
 \par
 \vspace*{\fill}
% \vskip 1.5em
 }
}

%
% The abstract is preceded by a 12-pt bold centered heading
\def\abstract{\begin{center}%
{\large\bf \abstractname\vspace{-.5em}\vspace{\z@}}%
\end{center}}
\def\endabstract{}

%
% Main section titles are 12-pt bold.  Others can be same or smaller.
%
\def\section{\@startsection {section}{1}{\z@}{-3.5ex plus-1ex minus
    -.2ex}{2.3ex plus.2ex}{\reset@font\large\bf}}

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