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...
Client disks ure a valuable resource that ure not adequately exploited by current client-server ciatabasesystems.In this papeG we propose the use of client disksfor caching databa...
Michael J. Franklin, Michael J. Carey, Miron Livny
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...
Elizabeth A. M. Shriver, Arif Merchant, John Wilke...
Several recent studies have pointed out that file I/Os can be a major performance bottleneck for some large Web servers. Large I/O buffer caches often do not work effectively for ...
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...
Mustafa Uysal, Arif Merchant, Guillermo A. Alvarez