Allowing higher-priority requests to preempt ongoing disk IOs is of particular benefit to delay-sensitive multimedia and real-time systems. In this paper we propose Semi-preempti...
Zoran Dimitrijevic, Raju Rangaswami, Edward Y. Cha...
ct In this paper, we evaluate storage system alternatives for movies-on-demandvideo servers. We begin by characterizing the movies-on-demand workload. We brie y discuss performance...
Ann L. Chervenak, David A. Patterson, Randy H. Kat...
As disk arrays become widely used, tools for understanding and analyzing their performance become increasingly important. In particular, performance models can be invaluable in bo...
This paper presents the study and results of running several core multimedia applications on a simultaneous multithreading (SMT) architecture, including some detailed analysis ran...
Yen-Kuang Chen, Eric Debes, Rainer Lienhart, Matth...
Disk power management is becoming increasingly important in high-end server and cluster type of environments that execute dataintensive applications. While hardware-only approache...