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SIGMETRICS
2002
ACM
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13 years 11 months ago
Analysis of methods for scheduling low priority disk drive tasks
This paper analyzes various algorithms for scheduling low priority disk drive tasks. The derived closed form solution is applicable to class of greedy algorithms that include a va...
Eitan Bachmat, Jiri Schindler
USENIX
1994
14 years 1 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...
FAST
2003
14 years 1 months ago
Using MEMS-Based Storage in Disk Arrays
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
USENIX
2008
14 years 2 months ago
Idle Read After Write - IRAW
Despite a low occurrence rate, silent data corruption represents a growing concern for storage systems designers. Throughout the storage hierarchy, from the file system down to th...
Alma Riska, Erik Riedel
USENIX
2008
14 years 2 months ago
Power-aware Remote Replication for Enterprise-level Disaster Recovery Systems
Electric energy consumed in data centers is rapidly growing. Power-aware IT, recently called `green IT', is widely recognized as a significant challenge. Disk storage is a no...
Kazuo Goda, Masaru Kitsuregawa
USENIX
2007
14 years 2 months ago
Evaluating Block-level Optimization Through the IO Path
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...
Alma Riska, James Larkby-Lahet, Erik Riedel
VLDB
1998
ACM
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14 years 4 months ago
Active Storage for Large-Scale Data Mining and Multimedia
The increasing performance and decreasing cost of processors and memory are causing system intelligence to move into peripherals from the CPU. Storage system designers are using t...
Erik Riedel, Garth A. Gibson, Christos Faloutsos
SIGMETRICS
1998
ACM
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14 years 4 months ago
An Analytic Behavior Model for Disk Drives with Readahead Caches and Request Reordering
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...
CIKM
1999
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
A Comparison of Alternative Continuous Display Techniques with Heterogeneous Multi-Zone Disks
A number of recent technological trends have made data intensive applications such as continuous media audio and video servers a reality. These servers are expected to play an i...
Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, Seon Ho Kim
MSS
2005
IEEE
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14 years 5 months ago
Using MEMS-Based Storage to Boost Disk Performance
Non-volatile storage technologies such as flash memory, Magnetic RAM (MRAM), and MEMS-based storage are emerging as serious alternatives to disk drives. Among these, MEMS storage...
Feng Wang 0003, Bo Hong, Scott A. Brandt, Darrell ...