Smruti Sarangi, IIT Delhi - Jan 2013

Professor Sarangi will be examining construction of wait free multiple concurrent streams to address the scalability and QoS guarantees in modern storage systems. In the emerging world of SCM / In-memory and multi-cores, the existing lock mechanisms and programming paradigms are being challenged and STM too finds resonance. Wait-freedom has been chased for a number of years, but of late practical designs have started to emerge, which achieve system goals without bringing a system to snails-pace. Prof. Sarangi’s work focuses on an important computational aspect in storage based algorithms – scheduling and propose wait free parallel algorithms and evaluate them.