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FAST
2011
12 years 8 months ago
FAST: Quick Application Launch on Solid-State Drives
Application launch performance is of great importance to system platform developers and vendors as it greatly affects the degree of users’ satisfaction. The single most effectiv...
Yongsoo Joo, Junhee Ryu, Sangsoo Park, Kang G. Shi...
FAST
2011
12 years 8 months ago
Leveraging Value Locality in Optimizing NAND Flash-based SSDs
: NAND flash-based solid-state drives (SSDs) are increasingly being deployed in storage systems at different levels such as buffer-caches and even secondary storage. However, the ...
Aayush Gupta, Raghav Pisolkar, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, A...
FAST
2011
12 years 8 months ago
Reliably Erasing Data from Flash-Based Solid State Drives
Reliably erasing data from storage media (sanitizing the media) is a critical component of secure data management. While sanitizing entire disks and individual files is well-unde...
Michael Yung Chung Wei, Laura M. Grupp, Frederick ...
FAST
2011
12 years 8 months ago
Exploiting Half-Wits: Smarter Storage for Low-Power Devices
This work analyzes the stochastic behavior of writing to embedded flash memory at voltages lower than recommended by a microcontroller’s specifications to reduce energy consum...
Mastooreh Salajegheh, Yue Wang, Kevin Fu, Anxiao J...
FAST
2011
12 years 8 months ago
Consistent and Durable Data Structures for Non-Volatile Byte-Addressable Memory
The predicted shift to non-volatile, byte-addressable memory (e.g., Phase Change Memory and Memristor), the growth of “big data”, and the subsequent emergence of frameworks su...
Shivaram Venkataraman, Niraj Tolia, Parthasarathy ...
FAST
2011
12 years 8 months ago
CAFTL: A Content-Aware Flash Translation Layer Enhancing the Lifespan of Flash Memory based Solid State Drives
Although Flash Memory based Solid State Drive (SSD) exhibits high performance and low power consumption, a critical concern is its limited lifespan along with the associated relia...
Feng Chen, Tian Luo, Xiaodong Zhang
FAST
2011
12 years 8 months ago
A Study of Practical Deduplication
We collected file system content data from 857 desktop computers at Microsoft over a span of 4 weeks. We analyzed the data to determine the relative efficacy of data deduplication...
Dutch T. Meyer, William J. Bolosky
FAST
2011
12 years 8 months ago
A Scheduling Framework That Makes Any Disk Schedulers Non-Work-Conserving Solely Based on Request Characteristics
Exploiting spatial locality is critical for a disk scheduler to achieve high throughput. Because of the high cost of disk head seeks and the non-preemptible nature of request serv...
Yuehai Xu, Song Jiang
JDCTA
2010
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12 years 11 months ago
Performance Test of An Embedded Real-Time Operating System Based on A New High-Security NetWork Computer
Performance indexes of the embedded real-time operating system are not isolated but interacting with each other. Two sets of elements aiming to describe the relationship between t...
Gengxin Sun, Fengjing Shao Name, Sheng Bin
ISF
2010
273views more  ISF 2010»
13 years 1 months ago
Agents of responsibility - freelance web developers in web applications development
Much of the literature on responsibility in the IT field addresses the responsibilities of members of the IT profession. In this paper, we investigate to what extent the responsibi...
Malik Aleem Ahmed, Jeroen van den Hoven