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Background

 

Sunnyvale, California

 
 

Shankar Pasupathy is a manager and member of technical staff in the Advanced Technology Group at NetApp. Currently he leads a set of projects around building dependable software. Previously he worked on a scalable locator service for a distributed object store. He also led a series of projects around metadata and content search for petabyte-scale storage. A lot of his work is done in collaboration with students and faculty at universities. Shankar received his master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
 

Awards

  • Two NetApp Annual Innovation Awards, 2009
  • NetApp Annual Innovation Award, 2010
  • Targeted Award for Innovation, Sun Microsystems

Professional Activities

  • Program committee member SYSTOR, 2010
  • Program committee member IEEE Mass Storage conference, 2011
  • Reviewer for FAST, USENIX, and ACM Transactions on Storage
  • Member of ACM
  • Member of USENIX

Research Interests

  • Dependable software
  • Automated fault resolution, log analysis
  • All things related to storage

Publications

  • Ding Yuan, Haohui Mai, Weiwei Xiong, Lin Tan, Yuanyuan Zhou, and Shankar Pasupathy. SherLog: Error Diagnosis by Connecting Clues from Run-time Logs. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Architecture Support for Programming Language and Operating Systems (ASPLOS'10). March 2010.
  • Andrew Leung, Minglong Shao, Tim Bisson, Shankar Pasupathy, and Ethan Miller. Spyglass: Fast, Scalable, Metadata Search for Large-Scale Storage. USENIX FAST 2009 conference.
  • Weihang Jiang, Chongfeng Hu, Shankar Pasupathy, Arkady Kanevsky, Zhenmin Li, and Yuanyuan Zhou. Understanding Customer Problem Troubleshooting from Storage System Logs.USENIX FAST 2009 conference.
  • Ian Adams, Darrell D. E. Long, Ethan L. Miller, Shankar Pasupathy, Mark W. Storer. Maximizing Efficiency by Trading Storage for Computation. Proceedings of the Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud ’09). June 2009.
  • Andrew Leung, Minglong Shao, Timothy Bisson, Shankar Pasupathy, and Ethan L. Miller. High-Performance Metadata Indexing and Search in Petascale Data Storage Systems. Proceedings of the SciDAC 2008 Conference. July 2008.
  • Andrew Leung, Shankar Pasupathy, Garth Goodson, and Ethan L. Miller. Measurement and Analysis of Large-Scale Network File System Workloads. Proceedings of the 2008 USENIX Technical Conference. June 2008
  • Lakshmi Bairavasundaram, Garth Goodson, Shankar Pasupathy, and Jiri Schindler. An Analysis of Latent Sector Errors in Disk Drives. Proceedings of SIGMETRICS 2007. International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems. Kenneth C. Sevcik Outstanding Student Paper Award
  • Shankar Pasupathy, Garth Goodson, and Vijayan Prabhakaran. Making Enterprise Storage More Search-Friendly.Poster presented at the Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP). 2005.
  • Four patents granted by the USPTO; 20 filed applications.

Recent Talks

  • HiPC workshop, 2010