I'm a grad student working on research in a non-systems fields (computer graphics).

Do people design their own system from the ground up? Do people start from an existing framework and try to improve it? What are unsolved problems in distributed systems research?

Also:

• are you able to access papers that are linked through acm or ieee?

I'm really interested in the nuts & bolts of SVGs and I was wondering if anyone knew of any papers around that, or maybe just some sources where I can start to look?

These were suggested in the threads related to the subreddit (the introduce yourself thread, or the thread introducing the subreddit).

I was hoping we could vote and come to a consensus about these proposals.