Pei Cao (cao@theory.stanford.edu)

Pei has relocated to Bay area.

Peregrine Web Caching Proxy

NetHawk Web Caching Proxy

Courses:

• CS739: Distributed Systems (Spring 1999)
• CS736: Advanced Operating System (Fall 1998)
• CS537: Introduction to Operating System (Spring 1998)

Awards:

• The 1998 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers ( PECASE)

Hot Links:

• The 1998 SIGMETRICS/Performance Workshop on Internet Server Performance

Research Projects

• WisWeb: Scalable, Consistent, High-Performance Web Caching

  • NEW: WisWeb proudly presents Active Cache technology.   Paper and prototype available.
  • Wisconsin Proxy Benchmark (WPB)
• Adaptive Management of Memory Hierarchies

Links to Web Research and Other Interesting Sites

Recent Publications and Talks

Software and Traces:

• A Prototype Implementation of Summary-Cache Enhanced ICP in Squid 1.1.14
• Wisconsin Proxy Benchmark (WPB) 1.0
• A Collection of Web Proxy/Client Traces
• Web Cache Simulator
• Modified Harvest Cached for Invalidation Based Web Consistency
• A Collection of Web Server Traces, originally located at the Internet Traffic Archive at http://town.hall.org.
• File Access Traces

Research Interests:

• Operating systems: resource management, I/O optimization;
• Scalability issues in the Web: caching, consistency and performance;

Education:

• Ph.D. Princeton University, 1996.
• M.S. Princeton University, 1992.
• B.S. Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 1990.