Livio Soares

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PhD Student of Computer Engineering
at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
in the University of Toronto.

My (broad) research interests include:

  • Operating Systems in general
    • Scalalability
    • Virtualization
    • Memory Management, File Systems, etc.
  • Computer Architecture
    • Computer Architecture interactions with the OS
  • Compilers
    • Dynamic Optimization Systems
  • Distributed Systems
  • Parallel Computing
Advisor: Michael Stumm

Research| Publications| Operating Systems Conferences| Research Links| Personal| Contact Info

Research

My research is currently focused on the performance of systems software. More specifically, I am investigating the interactions between modern computer architectures and systems software. One useful tool which I have worked with is the hardware performance counters found in most modern processors. I investigate software scalability in the face of current chip-multiprocessor and multithreaded hardware trends.

During the last years, I have been actively hacking the K42 research operating system, from which I have learned a great deal about operating-system structure, design and implementation. K42 is a research operating system designed for shared-memory multiprocessors with scalability and flexibility as its main goals.

For my Masters, I developed the K42 File System (KFS), including a concurrent port to the Linux kernel. The goal of KFS was to build an infra-structure for a flexible file-systems where each file or directory can have distinct implementations (layout on disk and caching policies). During KFS' development I also developed a novel file-system consistency technique called meta-data snapshotting, which was possible given KFS' unique decentralized meta-data structure. This work was done at the University of São Paulo; you can still visit my old web-page there.

Publications


Research Links

Resources I have found useful and/or interesting for my research:

Personal

  • Ioana helps me to keep on hoping and dreaming.
  • Calvin's perspective on the world (education included) is sublimely acid.
  • Beethoven's romantic genius inspires me not to give up, despite personal struggles.
  • Jimi (modern-day Beethoven) reminds me to be Bold as Love, imaginative and creative.
  • Piled Higher & Deeper - hilarious, yet strikingly familiar, comics about PhD life (or the lack thereof).

Contact Information:

Email: Email address as image to avoid spam
Lab phone: +1-416-978-1241
Alternative Lab Phone: +1-416-978-1677


University Mailing Address
Livio Soares
ECE Graduate Office, SF-1107
10 King's College Road
M5S 3G4
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Physical Lab Address
Room 372, D.L. Pratt Building
6 King's College Road
M5S 3H5
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Last modified: Tue May 6 04:17:01 EDT 2008