Livio Soares

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

Research

Publications

• 2007
  • PATH: Page Access Tracking to Improve Memory Management,
    Reza Azimi, Livio Soares, Michael Stumm, Angela Demke-Brown, and Tom Walsh
    In Proc. of International Symposium on Memory Management (ISMM 2007)

  • Experience distributing objects in an SMMP OS,
    Jonathan Appavoo, Dilma Da Silva, Orran Krieger, Marc Auslander, Michal Ostrowski, Bryan Rosenburg, Amos Waterland, Robert W. Wisniewski, Jimi Xenidis, Michael Stumm, Livio Soares
    In ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS) [2007, Volume 25, Issue 3]

  • Managing Shared L2 Caches on Multicore Systems in Software,
    David Tam, Reza Azimi, Livio Soares, and Michael Stumm
    Workshop on the Interaction between Operating Systems and Computer Architecture (WIOSCA) [Held with ISCA-2007]

  • Experiences Understanding Performance in a Commercial Scale-Out Environment,
    Robert W. Wisniewski, Reza Azimi, Mathieu Desnoyers, Maged M. Michael, Jose Moreira, Doron Shiloach, and Livio Soares
    In Proceedings of European Conference on Parallel Computing (Euro-Par) 2007
• 2004
  • KFS: Exploring Flexibility in File System Design,
    Dilma Da Silva, Livio Soares, and Orran Krieger
    In the Brazilian Workshop on Operating Systems (WSO'2004), Salvador, Brazil, August 2004. It is also available on the K42 web page here

  • (Poster) Meta-data Snapshotting: The Quest for File System Consistency,
    Livio Soares, Orran Krieger, Dilma Da Silva
    In the Poster Session of the 19th SOSP

• 2003
  • Meta-data Snapshotting: A Simple Mechanism for File System Consistency,
    Livio Soares, Orran Krieger, Dilma Da Silva
    In Proceedings of International Workshop on Storage Network Architecture and Parallel I/O (SNAPI '03)
    It is also available on the K42 web page here, and on the SNAPI page here.

• Master's Thesis (in Portuguese):
  • Flexibilidade em um Sistema de Arquivos Componentizado - (Flexibility in a Component based File System),
    Livio Soares,
    Thesis presented to the University of São Paulo as requirement for my Master's of Science in Computer Science
    Advisor: Dilma da Silva

Research Links

• Operating Systems/Architecture Conference Calendar - Doesn't every grad student have one? ;-)
• Systems Software Reading Group - A casual get-together here at UofT discussing new and classic systems research.
• CiteSeer - Tool for finding related work.
• Google Scholar - Yet, Another, Tool for finding related work.
• Multicore Bibliography Portal - Comprehensive multi-core bibliography organized by the systems group at SFU.

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:

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