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Research Summary

 

My Research interest is focused on OS-virtualization for High Performance Computing (HPC) and cloud computing. I have investigated the performance ramifications of deploying paravirtualized system in HPC setting. Furthermore, I have explored and empirically characterized the paravirtualized memory hierarchy, performance boundary, and paravirtualization impact on autotuning linear algebra software systems.

I have previously worked on customizing and tuning operating systems for specific scientific applications, in what would be known as "Application Specific Linux(ASL)". I have additionally studied the Linux kernels internals, since it is the most  widely used OS for both developing and deploying scientific applications.

In addition, I have also studied parallel modeling and implementation of scientific problems. Specifically, I have worked on designing and implementing a parallel model of interacting particles, and investigated its computation and communication performance limitations.

Finally, I am currently working on Vshmem; a programming language-level support for enabling System V IPC-style between user-space processes executing in distinct virtual machines, running on the same physical node. Our work postulates an efficient and familiar programming model for next generation heterogeneous multi-core processors .   
 


 

Selected Projects Overview


virtualization aspects for HPC

Extended Abstract HPDC'08 paper


CloudOntology

GCE'08 paper


FishInteraction

IEEE CSE'08 MATCOM Journal'08


Paravirtualization performance impact

VTDC'06 paper XHPC'06 paper


ASL

Extended Abstract


 


Department of Computer Science University of California, Santa Barbara