My University of Minnesota homepage. I am currently a graduate student in the Department of Computer Science and my advisor is Abhishek Chandra.

In my spare time I work for a prop proprietary trading firm in Chicago building low-latency trading systems. Previously I worked for IBM doing Linux kernel work.

A physicist, an engineer, and a computer scientist were discussing the nature of God. "Surely a Physicist," said the physicist, "because early in the Creation, God made Light; and you know, Maxwell's equations, the dual nature of electromagnetic waves, the relativistic consequences..." "An Engineer!," said the engineer, "because before making Light, God split the Chaos into Land and Water; it takes a hell of an engineer to handle that big amount of mud, and orderly separation of solids from liquids..." The computer scientist shouted: "And the Chaos, where do you think it was coming from, hmm?"

• W. J. Armstrong, R. L. Arndt, D. C. Boutcher, R. G. Kovacs, D. Larson, K. A. Lucke, N. Nayar, and R. C. Swanberg. Advanced virtualization capabilities of power5 systems. IBM J. Res. Dev., 49(4/5):523-532, 2005. [ bib ]
• David Boutcher and Abhishek Chandra. Practical techniques for purging deleted data using liveness information. SIGOPS Oper. Syst. Rev., 42(5):85-94, 2008. [ bib | DOI | .pdf ]
• David Boutcher and Abhishek Chandra. Does Virtualization Make Disk Scheduling Passe HotStorage 2009 .pdf ]

All the other interesting bits are linked off this page.