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1999
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
The Network RamDisk: Using remote memory on heterogeneous NOWs
Efficient data storage, a major concern in the modern computer industry, is mostly provided today by the the traditional magnetic disk. Unfortunately the cost of a disk transfer m...
Michail Flouris, Evangelos P. Markatos
ISCA
2008
IEEE
105views Hardware» more  ISCA 2008»
15 years 3 months ago
Intra-disk Parallelism: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
Server storage systems use a large number of disks to achieve high performance, thereby consuming a significant amount of power. In this paper, we propose to significantly reduc...
Sriram Sankar, Sudhanva Gurumurthi, Mircea R. Stan
DAC
2007
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
SODA: Sensitivity Based Optimization of Disk Architecture
Storage plays a pivotal role in the performance of many applications. Optimizing disk architectures is a design-time as well as a run-time issue and requires balancing between per...
Yan Zhang, Sudhanva Gurumurthi, Mircea R. Stan
SOSP
2005
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
FS2: dynamic data replication in free disk space for improving disk performance and energy consumption
Disk performance is increasingly limited by its head positioning latencies, i.e., seek time and rotational delay. To reduce the head positioning latencies, we propose a novel tech...
Hai Huang, Wanda Hung, Kang G. Shin
RTAS
2008
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Virtualizing Disk Performance
Large- and small-scale storage systems frequently serve a mixture of workloads, an increasing number of which require some form of performance guarantee. Providing guaranteed disk...
Tim Kaldewey, Theodore M. Wong, Richard A. Golding...