Sudarsun Kannan

I am a postdoc at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's CS department advised by Prof. Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau and Prof. Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau. I graduated from College of Computing, Georgia Tech, where I was advised by Prof. Karsten Schwan and Prof. Ada Gavrilovska. My thesis explored methods to extend virtual memory support for heterogeneous memory technologies.

I work on Operating Systems, Computer Architecture, Distributed Systems, and High-performance computing (HPC).

I will be joining the CS department @ Rutgers University this Fall (2018) as an Assistant Professor. I am looking for students interested in OS, Computer Architecture, Distributed Systems, and HPC. Please drop me an email (sudarsun.kannan.at.rutgers.edu) if you would like to join my group (and build systems).

Recent Research

DevFS - Hardware-level file system design for direct storage access bypassing the OS [FAST '18].
HeteroOS - Hypervisor & OS support for heterogeneous memory management in Virtualized data centers [ISCA '17].
Unwritten SSD contracts - Understanding the impact of hidden SSD contracts on applications [EuroSys '17].
pVM - Virtual memory design for exploiting NVM's large capacity and fast storage [EuroSys '16].

Selected Publications [Complete List] [Google Scholar]

Redesigning LSMs for Nonvolatile Memory with NoveLSM.
Sudarsun Kannan, Nitish Bhat, Ada Gavrilovska, Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, and Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau
USENIX ATC 2018 (To Appear)

NVStream: Accelerating HPC Workflows with NVRAM-based Transport for Streaming Objects.
Pradeep Fernando, Ada Gavrilovska, Sudarsun Kannan, and Greg Eisenhauer
HPDC 2018 (To Appear)

Designing a True Direct-Access File System.
Sudarsun Kannan, Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, and Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau
USENIX FAST 2018
[paper] [slides]

HeteroOS - OS design for heterogeneous memory management in datacenter.
Sudarsun Kannan, Ada Gavrilovska, Vishal Gupta, and Karsten Schwan
ISCA 2017
[paper] [slides]

pVM - Persistent Virtual Memory for Efficient Capacity Scaling and Object Storage
Sudarsun Kannan, Ada Gavrilovska, and Karsten Schwan
EuroSys 2016
[paper] [slides]

Teaching

Spring 2017 - CS 736 - Advanced Operating Systems, Guest Lecturer, UW-Madison
Fall 2017 - CS 739 - Distributed Systems, Guest Lecturer, UW-Madison
Spring 2016 - CS 3210 - Undergraduate OS Introduction, Head Teaching Assistant, Georgia Tech
Spring 2015 - CS 3210 - Undergraduate OS Introduction, Guest Lecturer, Georgia Tech
Fall 2014 - CS 6210 - Advanced OS, Guest Lecturer, Georgia Tech
Fall 2013 - CS 6210 - Advanced OS, Guest Lecturer, Georgia Tech
Fall 2011 - CS 4210 - Graduate OS Introduction, Head Teaching Assistant, Georgia Tech

Conference/Journal Services

2018 - External Reviewer - 25th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2018)
2018 - Reviewer - Computer Architecture Letters (CAL)
2018 - Reviewer - IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS)

2017 - Program committee - 46th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP)
2017 - Reviewer - IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC)
2017 - Shadow PC committee - Eurosys
2017 - Science of Computer Programming
2016 - Shadow PC committee - Eurosys
2016 - Reviewer - Computer Architecture Letters (CAL)
2016 - Reviewer - IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC)
2014 - Reviewer - IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC)
2013 - Reviewer - IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS)

Patents

Checkpoint generation,
Sudarsun Kannan, Paolo Faraboschi, Moray McLaren, Dejan S Milojicic, [Patent]
US Patent No. 13/755,664, 2013

Active Non Volatile Memory Post Processing, [Patent]
Sudarsun Kannan, Dejan Milojicic, Vanish Talwar, HP Labs
US Patent No: 20,130,227,194

System and Method for Installation and Management of Cloud-Independent Multi-Tenant Applications, [Patent]
Donahue, James E., Ho, Sudarsun Kannan, Ricky, Gore, Pradnyesh S.
US Patent Application No: 2012/0047,239

Tools and softwares

Benchmark for Understanding Heterogeneous Memory impact

Memory throttler

NVM memory manager

Memory latency benchmark