I'm Sitaram Iyer. I do operating systems research in my spare time.

Resume (dated), and about me in keywords.

Contact info = 832-865-3139 (cell), 713-348-3726 (off), 713-661-4302 ('ome), email.

Publications:

{virtual memory}
1. with Juan Navarro and Peter Druschel, Practical, transparent operating system support for superpages, in preparation.

   {p2p}

2. with Ant Rowstron and Peter Druschel, Squirrel: A decentralized peer-to-peer web cache (project webpage / PDF / PS.gz), submitted to PODC 2002.

   {resource scheduling}

3. with Peter Druschel, Anticipatory Scheduling: a disk scheduling framework to overcome deceptive idleness in synchronous I/O (project webpage / PDF / PS.gz), 18th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP 2001), Chateau Lake Louise, Banff, Canada.

4. advised by Peter Druschel, The effect of deceptive idleness on disk schedulers (PDF), Masters thesis and techreport Rice-CSTR01-379.

   {webserver QoS}

5. with Mohit Aron and Peter Druschel, A Resource Management Framework for Predictable Quality of Service in Web Servers, (PDF), submitted.

   {misc}

6. with Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Xority: A Measure of Separability of Training Sets for Hidden Layer Size Estimation in Neural Nets, (PS.gz) published in the Intl. Conference of Knowledge Based Computer Systems (KBCS '98).

• the Wondering Minstrels - aka the Poetry Club (javascript, procmail filter, perl script)
• our IITB CS BTech Batchof98 Webpage (javascript, php3 run by cron)
• the Documentation Repository (now offline) (statically run perl script)
• the FOYM data entry page (now temporarily offline) (javascript, php3, postgres95 backend)
• the Rice Indian community phone/address book (perl, latex) [password protected]
  and an unprotected stripped-down version