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USENIX
1994
13 years 6 months ago
A Quantitative Analysis of Disk Drive Power Management in Portable Computers
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...
Kester Li, Roger Kumpf, Paul Horton, Thomas E. And...
PVLDB
2010
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13 years 3 months ago
Tree Indexing on Solid State Drives
Large flash disks, or solid state drives (SSDs), have become an attractive alternative to magnetic hard disks, due to their high random read performance, low energy consumption a...
Yinan Li, Bingsheng He, Jun Yang 0001, Qiong Luo, ...
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
250views Database» more  SIGMOD 2009»
14 years 5 months ago
Query processing techniques for solid state drives
Solid state drives perform random reads more than 100x faster than traditional magnetic hard disks, while offering comparable sequential read and write bandwidth. Because of their...
Dimitris Tsirogiannis, Stavros Harizopoulos, Mehul...
USENIX
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Context-Aware Mechanisms for Reducing Interactive Delays of Energy Management in Disks
Aggressive energy conserving mechanisms can maximize energy efficiency, but often have the negative tradeoff of simultaneously reducing system responsiveness due to the switching ...
Igor Crk, Chris Gniady
SENSYS
2009
ACM
14 years 6 days ago
Mercury: a wearable sensor network platform for high-fidelity motion analysis
This paper describes Mercury, a wearable, wireless sensor platform for motion analysis of patients being treated for neuromotor disorders, such as Parkinson’s Disease, epilepsy,...
Konrad Lorincz, Bor-rong Chen, Geoffrey Werner Cha...