My interest in Windows NT is a result of the increasing use and popularity of Wintel machines in the research community. I'm currently interested in two topics. First, with my advisor, I've been investigating the effect of of page mapping algorithms on L2 cache hit rates. It appears that for some common applications such as file compression, smart virtual-to-physical page translations can improve L2 hit rates by 20% as compared to traditional mapping algorithms. I'm interested in learning what kind of mapping algorithm Windows NT uses and if our results apply to popular PC applications. THe second topic that I'm interested in is building parallel computers with clusters of PCs. Since PCs are a cheap commodity and since Windows NT is a relatively cheap operating systems, I feel clusters of NT PCs can be into a cost-effective parallel systems. I'd like to understand the issues involved in building such clusters with Windows NT.

Name: Shankar Pasupathy
Affiliation: Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Address: 1210 W. Dayton St., Madison WI 53706
Email: shankar@cs.wisc.edu
Phone: (608)262-9275
URL: https://www.cs.wisc.edu/~shankar