Juan Navarro
 
PhD student
Systems Group
Department of Computer Science
Rice University

Background

I got a BA degree in Engineering back in 1987,  from Universidad Católica de Chile. Then I worked for far too many years in the software industry,  until I decided to have some real fun and went back to school for a master's degree, which I got in 1996 from the Computer Science Department of  Universidad Católica de Chile. During my master I spent a semester as an exchange student at University of California, San Diego. Then I worked two years at Universidad Católica de Chile as a researcher and lecturer, and finally came to Rice for a PhD, while still affiliated to Universidad Católica.

Research

My research interests comprise operating systems, high-performance computing, and parallel and distributed systems. I am currently working on a project called Mitosis, whose goal is to improve performance and scalability of virtual memory systems.

Publications

  1. Sitaram Iyer, Juan Navarro and Peter Druschel. Application-assisted physical memory management. Submitted for review, 2004.
  2. Juan Navarro. Transparent operating system support for superpages. Ph.D. Thesis. Department of Computer Science, Rice University, 2004.
    [ abstract  | pdf (6MB) ]
  3. Juan Navarro, Sitaram Iyer, Peter Druschel and Alan Cox. Practical, transparent operating system support for superpages. Fifth Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '02), Boston, Mass., Dec 2002.
    [ abstract  | postscript | html | powerpoint ]
  4. Juan E. Navarro and Alan Cox. Mitosis: a high performance, scalable virtual memory system. Technical report TTR01-378, CS Dept., Rice University, April 2001.
    [ abstract | postcript ]
  5. Alvaro E. Campos and Juan E. Navarro. A page-coherent, causally consistent protocol for distributed shared memory. Journal of Systems and Software, 72(3):305-319, August 2004.
  6. Juan E. Navarro. Simulación bajo memoria compartida de un sistema distribuido que simula memoria compartida. III Congreso Argentino de Ciencia de la Computación, La Plata, Argentina, 1997.
    [ abstract | gzipped postcript (in spanish) ]
  7. Juan E. Navarro and Alvaro E. Campos. A causally consistent protocol for distributed shared memory, Technical Report RT-PUC-DCC-97-2, Departamento de Ciencia de la Computación, Universidad Católica de Chile, 1997.
    [ abstract  | gzipped postcript ]
  8. Juan E. Navarro. Un protocolo de consistencia causal para memoria compartida distribuida. Master's Thesis, Departamento de Ciencia de la Computación, Escuela de Ingeniería, Universidad Católica de Chile, 1996.
  9. Juan E. Navarro and Alvaro E. Campos. Coherent causal consistency in distributed shared memory. XV International Conference of the Chilean Computer Society, Arica, Chile, 1995.

Personal interests

Contact info

Office: Duncan Hall 3003
Tel: (713) 348-3817
Fax: (713) 348-5930
Email: jnavarro@cs.rice.edu

Mailing Address
Department of Computer Science
Rice University
6100 S. Main Street, MS 132
Houston, TX 77005-1892

visitors since January 01, 2001.