Improved Multimedia Server I/O Subsystems

The main function of a continuous media server is to concurrently stream data from storage to multiple clients over a network. The resulting streams will congest the host CPU bus, reducing access to the system's main memory, which degrades CPU performance. The purpose of this paper is to investigate ways of improving I/O subsystems of continuous media servers. Several improved I/O subsystem architectures are presented and their performances evaluated. The proposed architectures use an existing device, namely the Intel i960RP

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1998
• Where: EUROMICRO
• Authors: Michael Weeks, Hadj Batatia, Reza Sotudeh
• Keywords: Continuous Media Servers, EUROMICRO 1998, I/O Subsystem, I/O Subsystem Architectures, Software Engineering