μShell wins Distinguished Artifact Award at OSDI 2026

Our paper “μShell: A Microkernel-based FPGA Shell Architecture” received the Distinguished Artifact Award at OSDI 2026 (the 20th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation), one of the top conferences in operating systems and computer systems. The paper will be presented by Anubhav Panda on the third day of the conference (July 15).

μShell is a hardware–OS co-design that applies microkernel principles to FPGA acceleration, treating accelerators as a collection of shareable, composable hardware modules that are dynamically linked through a novel inter-process communication (IPC) mechanism. For more details, see the publication page.