| 2005 | Proper: Privileged Operations in a Virtualised System Environment. | Steve Muir, Larry L. Peterson, Marc E. Fiuczynski, Justin Cappos, John H. Hartman |
| 2005 | Linux Physical Memory Analysis. | Paul Movall, Ward Nelson, Shaun Wetzstein |
| 2005 | Making Scheduling "Cool": Temperature-Aware Workload Placement in Data Centers. | Justin D. Moore, Jeffrey S. Chase, Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Ratnesh K. Sharma |
| 2005 | Build Buddy for Fun and Profit. | Dan Mills |
| 2005 | Linux and JPL's Mars Exploration Rover Project: Earth-based Planning, Simulation, and Really Remote Scheduling. | Scott Maxwell, Frank R. Hartman |
| 2005 | A Tool for Automated iptables Firewall Analysis. | Robert M. Marmorstein, Phil Kearns |
| 2005 | Scmbug: Policy-based Integration of Software Configuration Management with Bug-tracking. | Kristis Makris, Kyung Dong Ryu |
| 2005 | FreeVGA: Architecture Independent Video Graphics Initialization for LinuxBIOS. | Li-Ta Lo, Gregory R. Watson, Ronald G. Minnich |
| 2005 | Pulse: A Dynamic Deadlock Detection Mechanism Using Speculative Execution. | Tong Li, Carla Schlatter Ellis, Alvin R. Lebeck, Daniel J. Sorin |
| 2005 | Automatic Synthesis of Filters to Discard Buffer Overflow Attacks: A Step Towards Realizing Self-Healing Systems. | Zhenkai Liang, R. Sekar, Daniel C. DuVarney |
| 2005 | Brooery: A Graphical Environment for Analysis of Security-Relevant Network Activity. | Christian Kreibich |
| 2005 | Maintaining High-Bandwidth Under Dynamic Network Conditions. | Dejan Kostic, Ryan Braud, Charles Killian, Erik Vandekieft, James W. Anderson, Alex C. Snoeren, Amin Vahdat |
| 2005 | OpenCSG: A Library for Image-Based CSG Rendering. | Florian Kirsch, Jrgen Dllner |
| 2005 | Debugging Operating Systems with Time-Traveling Virtual Machines (Awarded General Track Best Paper Award!). | Samuel T. King, George W. Dunlap, Peter M. Chen |
| 2005 | A PC-Based Open-Source Voting Machine with an Accessible Voter-Verifiable Paper Ballot. | Arthur M. Keller, Alan Dechert, Karl Auerbach, David Mertz, Amy Pearl, Joseph Lorenzo Hall |
| 2005 | Surviving Internet Catastrophes. | Flavio Paiva Junqueira, Ranjita Bhagwan, Alejandro Hevia, Keith Marzullo, Geoffrey M. Voelker |
| 2005 | CLOCK-Pro: An Effective Improvement of the CLOCK Replacement. | Song Jiang, Feng Chen, Xiaodong Zhang |
| 2005 | USB/IP - A Peripheral Bus Extension for Device Sharing over IP Network (Awarded FREENIX Track Best Paper Award!). | Takahiro Hirofuchi, Eiji Kawai, Kazutoshi Fujikawa, Hideki Sunahara |
| 2005 | Grave Robbers from Outer Space: Using 9P2000 Under Linux. | Eric Van Hensbergen, Ron Minnich |
| 2005 | Running Virtualized Native Drivers in User Mode Linux. | Vincent Guffens, Georges Bastin |
| 2005 | Itanium - A System Implementor's Tale(Awarded General Track Best Student Paper Award!). | Charles Gray, Matthew Chapman, Peter Chubb, David Mosberger, Gernot Heiser |
| 2005 | Attrition Defenses for a Peer-to-Peer Digital Preservation System. | Thomas J. Giuli, Petros Maniatis, Mary Baker, David S. H. Rosenthal, Mema Roussopoulos |
| 2005 | SARC: Sequential Prefetching in Adaptive Replacement Cache. | Binny S. Gill, Dharmendra S. Modha |
| 2005 | A Transactional Flash File System for Microcontrollers. | Eran Gal, Sivan Toledo |
| 2005 | Server Network Scalability and TCP Offload. | Douglas Freimuth, Elbert C. Hu, Jason D. LaVoie, Ronald Mraz, Erich M. Nahum, Prashant Pradhan, John M. Tracey |