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MASCOTS
2003
13 years 6 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
13 years 9 months 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 5 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 8 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