SIGMETRICS
2002
ACM
14 years 7 days ago
2002
ACM
This paper analyzes various algorithms for scheduling low priority disk drive tasks. The derived closed form solution is applicable to class of greedy algorithms that include a va...
USENIX
1994
14 years 1 months ago
1994
With the advent and subsequent popularity of portable computers, power management of system components has become an important issue. Current portable computers implement a number...
FAST
2003
14 years 2 months ago
2003
Current disk arrays, the basic building blocks of highperformance storage systems, are built around two memory technologies: magnetic disk drives, and non-volatile DRAM caches. Di...
USENIX
2008
14 years 2 months ago
2008
Despite a low occurrence rate, silent data corruption represents a growing concern for storage systems designers. Throughout the storage hierarchy, from the file system down to th...
USENIX
2008
14 years 2 months ago
2008
Electric energy consumed in data centers is rapidly growing. Power-aware IT, recently called `green IT', is widely recognized as a significant challenge. Disk storage is a no...
USENIX
2007
14 years 2 months ago
2007
This paper focuses on evaluation of the effectiveness of optimization at various layers of the IO path, such as the file system, the device driver scheduler, and the disk drive i...
VLDB
1998
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
1998
ACM
The increasing performance and decreasing cost of processors and memory are causing system intelligence to move into peripherals from the CPU. Storage system designers are using t...
SIGMETRICS
1998
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
1998
ACM
Modern disk drives read-ahead data and reorder incoming requests in a workload-dependent fashion. This improves their performance, but makes simple analytical models of them inade...
CIKM
1999
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
1999
Springer
A number of recent technological trends have made data intensive applications such as continuous media audio and video servers a reality. These servers are expected to play an i...
MSS
2005
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2005
IEEE
Non-volatile storage technologies such as flash memory, Magnetic RAM (MRAM), and MEMS-based storage are emerging as serious alternatives to disk drives. Among these, MEMS storage...