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OSDI
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Transactional Flash
Transactional flash (TxFlash) is a novel solid-state drive (SSD) that uses flash memory and exports a transactional interface (WriteAtomic) to the higher-level software. The copy-...
Vijayan Prabhakaran, Thomas L. Rodeheffer, Lidong ...
CF
2008
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
DMA-based prefetching for i/o-intensive workloads on the cell architecture
Recent advent of the asymmetric multi-core processors such as Cell Broadband Engine (Cell/BE) has popularized the use of heterogeneous architectures. A growing body of research is...
M. Mustafa Rafique, Ali Raza Butt, Dimitrios S. Ni...
IPPS
2010
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
A GPU-inspired soft processor for high-throughput acceleration
There is building interest in using FPGAs as accelerators for high-performance computing, but existing systems for programming them are so far inadequate. In this paper we propose...
Jeffrey Kingyens, J. Gregory Steffan
STORAGESS
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Expecting the unexpected: adaptation for predictive energy conservation
The use of access predictors to improve storage device performance has been investigated for both improving access times, as well as a means of reducing energy consumed by the dis...
Jeffrey P. Rybczynski, Darrell D. E. Long, Ahmed A...
SYSTOR
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
The effectiveness of deduplication on virtual machine disk images
Virtualization is becoming widely deployed in servers to efficiently provide many logically separate execution environments while reducing the need for physical servers. While th...
Keren Jin, Ethan L. Miller