Vasily Tarasov's page at FSL

Vasily Tarasov's page at File systems and Storage Lab's server

About me
Courses
Teaching
Recent projects
Papers
Links
Resume
Contacts

About me
I'm a second year Computer Science Ph.D. student at the Stony Brook University. My adviser is Prof. Erez Zadok. Currently I mainly work on the NFSv4-htst project.
My scientific interests include Operating Systems, Computer Architectures and Software Engineering.
I received B.S. and M.S. degree in Applied Mathematics and Physics at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (PhysTech).
For two years I was working as a Linux kernel developer for the SWSoft Inc. (now Parallels).

Courses

Fall 2007:

CSE 502	Computer Architecture	As a final project the "Eager Sharing" cache coherence protocol was implemented for the Simics + GEMS simulation platform. Final report on this project is available in the Papers section.
CSE 506	Operating Systems	While working for SWSoft on OpenVZ project I developed an extension to CFQ I/O scheduler, that allows to produce scheduling according to the groups of processes (but not separate processes). As a final project for the CSE 506 class this extension was ported to CGroups system - mainsteam Linux Kernel's implementation of process grouping. The report on this project is available in the Papers section.

Spring 2008:

CSE 504	Compiler Design	During this class a compiler for the Decaf programming language (simplified JAVA-like language) was developed. Lexical analysis was facilitated by lex and parsing by bison. The object code for the JAVA-like virtual machine was generated, but not optimized at all (even in the hardware independent front-end). Compiler was programmed in C++.
CSE 541	Logic in Computer Science	It was a completely theoretical class, however additional knowledge was gain about applying the formal methods for the systems' verification.

Fall 2008:

CSE 534 Fundamentals of Computer Networks In progress

CSE 532 Theory of Database Systems In progress

Teaching
In the fall of 2008 I'm a Teaching Assistant (TA) for the CSE506 - Operating Systems class.

Recent projects
In the spring and summer of 2008 I was working on the hpcperf project. Specifically I was helping Dr. Avishay Treager implementing and designing a part of the DARC system.
Fall 2007 semester I was involved in the "htfied fast system calls" project at the Experimental Computer Systems Lab (ECSL) under Prof. Chiueh. No paper is released about this project at the moment.

Papers (English-speaking)

Eager Sharing Protocol Implementation for GEMS [PDF]
Vasily Tarasov, Dmytro Molkov. Computer Science Department, Stony Brook University, December 2007 (Under Prof. Wittie's supervision)
CFQ_SUBSYS: Block I/O scheduling cgroups subsystem based on CFQ [TXT]
Vasily Tarasov. Computer Science Department, Stony Brook University, December 2007

Links

Resume
Resume is available on request.

Contacts

Web-site:	http://vasily.name
E-mail:

Last update: 2008 Sep 4

CSE 534	Fundamentals of Computer Networks	In progress
CSE 532	Theory of Database Systems	In progress