LISA is the Annual System Administration Conference, co-sponsored by USENIX and SAGE. It began in 1986. The USENIX Association is the Advanced Computing Technical Association. ... SAGE is an international nonprofit professional association of system administrators. ... 1986 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Its name was originally an acronym for Large Installation System Administration (where large was understood to mean sites with over 100 users or over 100 megabytes of storage), but eventually the acronym was dropped, but the name was retained. This article is about a unit of data measurement. ...

It is typically held in the fall in a conference center hotel somewhere in the United States. It generally runs six days: three days of full-day and half-day tutorial training sessions and three days of technical sessions. The technical sessions usually include multiple tracks, including a peer reviewed refereed paper track and a "Guru-Is-In" Q&A track. Attendance has recently been in the 1000-2000 range. A hotel is an establishment that provides lodging, usually on a short-term basis. ... Peer review (known as refereeing in some academic fields) is a scholarly process used in the publication of manuscripts and in the awarding of funding for research. ...

The conference often ends with a LISA Quiz Show trivia contest.

The refereed papers are published in a proceedings volume. Many important topics in system administration were first disseminated publicly via LISA papers.

External links

• LISA '04 - 18th Large Installation System Administration Conference
• LISA'05 19th Large Installation System Administration Conference
• THe LISA '05 Conference Blog