Hello! My name is Santhosh and I am a Research Assistant at the File Systems and Storage Lab in the Department of Computer Science at Stony Brook University. You can find more information about who I am and what I do in this page.
Research
Technology and design principles
underlying Database Management Systems and Operating Systems fascinate
me. Is it because these are the only things I have ever worked on? Perhaps! I've also
been learning a thing or two about File and Storage
Systems Technology since I joined the File Systems and Storage Lab
(FSL) at Stony Brook in the fall of 2010. My area of research at the
FSL focuses on automating the generation and evaluation of synthetic
workload models from representative traces.
There is a Work in Progress talk and a poster on Trace2Model, our current research project, presented by Vasily at the USENIX FAST' 11 . Also checkout the Birds-of-A-Feather session on Filebench Custom variables that Vasily and I designed and implemented at the same venue.
Professional Work Experience
I worked at the Information Management division of IBM's India Software Lab between July 2007 and June 2010 before coming down to Stony Brook University to pursue my masters in Computer Science. For the most part, I was working with Change Data Capture technology at IBM i.e Efficiently capture change data from database transaction/redo logs and deliver change data to heterogeneous targets in real time.
Education
Operating Systems (CSE 506, Professor Zadok),
Theory of Database Systems (CSE 532, Professor Gupta) and
Analysis of Algorithms (CSE 548, Professor Bender).
SPRING 2011
Advanced Algorithms (CSE 638, Professor Bender),
Compiler Design (CSE 504, Professor Radu Grosu) and
Cryptography and Network Security (CSE 508, Professor Rob).
ANNA UNIVERSITY
Parampara is a Sanskrit word that roughly translates to lineage in English. Read more about it here.
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Links
Heard of Filebench? FSL's port of Filebench for the Linux/FreeBSD platforms can be found here.
Like Halloween? What did it mean to database researchers? Read about it here, here or here.
Like Randomness? Use Professor Geoff Kuenning's MTWIST library to generate random numbers at incredible speeds.
Are Heirarchical Filesystems dead? Do you really think so?
If GOTO statements are evil, why do I have so many of them on my page :-) ?
Contact
Do you have cool ideas to enhance Filebench? Do you have Filebench feature requests? Did you find bugs? Expertise in benchmarking, workload characterization or model generation? New to Stony Brook? Just wanted to say hi :-) ? I would love to hear from you. You can email me at sasababa [at] gmail [dot] com.