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
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 by Prof. Larry Wittie	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 by Prof. Erez Zadok	While working for the SWSoft on the OpenVZ project I developed an extension to the CFQ I/O scheduler, that allows to produce I/O scheduling according to the groups of processes (but not individual processes). As a final project for the CSE 506 class this extension was ported to the 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 by Prof. C.R. Ramakrishnan	During this class the 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 wasn't optimized at all (even in the hardware independent front-end). Compiler was programmed in C++.
CSE 541	Logic in Computer Science by Prof. Leo Bachmair	It was a completely theoretical class, however additional knowledge was gain about applying formal methods for systems' verification.

Fall 2008:

CSE 534	Fundamentals of Computer Networks by Prof. Samir Das	During the class two practical projects were completed. In both of them ns2 network simulator was used to observe the behaviour of Ethernet/IP-based networks under various conditions. The reports on these projects are available in the Papers section.
CSE 532	Theory of Database Systems by Prof. Himanshu Gupta	This was mostly theoretical course: no projects. On the other hand considerable part of the course was dedicated to the implementation details of DBMS and internal algorithms used there.

Spring 2009:

CSE 548 Analysis of Algorithms
by Prof. Ker-I Ko In progress

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

Recent projects
In the winter of 2008-2009 I was involved in the green project. As the result the paper about the usage of compression as a method for improving the energy efficiency was submitted to the SYSTOR 2009. 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]
Project Report. 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]
Project Report. Vasily Tarasov. Computer Science Department, Stony Brook University, December 2007
Evaluation of the Throughput, Delay, Drop and Fairness Characteristics of Ethernet LAN [PDF]
Project Report. Vasily Tarasov, Yury Puzis. Computer Science Departament, October 2008
Effectiveness of ECN and RED Based Congestion Detection [PDF]
Project Report. Yury Puzis, Vasily Tarasov. Computer Science Departament, December 2008

Resume
Resume is available on request.

Contacts

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

Last update: 2009 Jan 10