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MASCOTS
2003
13 years 8 months ago
Disk Built-in Caches: Evaluation on System Performance
Disk drive manufacturers are putting increasingly larger built-in caches into disk drives. Today, 2 MB buffers are common on low-end retail IDE/ATA drives, and some SCSI drives ar...
Yingwu Zhu, Yiming Hu
COLCOM
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 days ago
DiSK: A distributed shared disk cache for HPC environments
Abstract—Data movement within high performance environments can be a large bottleneck to the overall performance of programs. With the addition of continuous storage and usage of...
Brandon Szeliga, Tung Nguyen, Weisong Shi
HPCA
2004
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
Improving Disk Throughput in Data-Intensive Servers
Low disk throughput is one of the main impediments to improving the performance of data-intensive servers. In this paper, we propose two management techniques for the disk control...
Enrique V. Carrera, Ricardo Bianchini
SPDP
1991
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Caching and writeback policies in parallel file systems
Improvements in the processing speed of multiprocessors are outpacing improvements in the speed of disk hardware. Parallel disk I/O subsystems have been proposed as one way to clo...
David Kotz, Carla Schlatter Ellis