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Dushyanth Narayanan
Dushyanth Narayanan is a researcher at Microsoft's European research centre in Cambridge, England. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 2002, and his B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 1995.

Research

Most recently I have been working on power and performance in data centers, particularly data center storage. Previously I worked on Seaweed, a scalable distributed query infrastructure for large networks, and before that on database performance prediction, end-to-end tracing, and adaptation in mobile systems.

Recent publications

Everest: Scaling down peak loads through I/O off-loading (will be presented at OSDI 2008)

Delay aware querying with Seaweed (The VLDB Journal Special Issue: Best of VLDB 2006)
(author's copy, conference version)

All publications

Erdös path

Projects

Everest: I/O off-loading (MS internal only)

DiskEnergy: saving energy in data center storage

Seaweed: scalable distributed querying

Resource Advisor: database performance prediction and visualization

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