{ZNS}: Avoiding the block interface tax for flash-based {SSDs}

M Bjørling, A Aghayev, H Holmberg… - 2021 USENIX Annual …, 2021 - usenix.org
The Zoned Namespace (ZNS) interface represents a new division of functionality between
host software and flash-based SSDs. Current flash-based SSDs maintain the decades-old …

Error characterization, mitigation, and recovery in flash-memory-based solid-state drives

Y Cai, S Ghose, EF Haratsch, Y Luo… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
NAND flash memory is ubiquitous in everyday life today because its capacity has
continuously increased and cost has continuously decreased over decades. This positive …

{MQSim}: A framework for enabling realistic studies of modern {Multi-Queue}{SSD} devices

A Tavakkol, J Gómez-Luna, M Sadrosadati… - … USENIX Conference on …, 2018 - usenix.org
Solid-state drives (SSDs) are used in a wide array of computer systems today, including in
datacenters and enterprise servers. As the I/O demands of these systems have increased …

Gimbal: enabling multi-tenant storage disaggregation on SmartNIC JBOFs

J Min, M Liu, T Chugh, C Zhao, A Wei, IH Doh… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Emerging SmartNIC-based disaggregated NVMe storage has become a promising storage
infrastructure due to its competitive IO performance and low cost. These SmartNIC JBOFs …

The unwritten contract of solid state drives

J He, S Kannan, AC Arpaci-Dusseau… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
We perform a detailed vertical analysis of application performance atop a range of modern
file systems and SSD FTLs. We formalize the" unwritten contract" that clients of SSDs should …

{FairyWREN}: A Sustainable Cache for Emerging {Write-Read-Erase} Flash Interfaces

S McAllister, B Berg, DS Berger… - … USENIX Symposium on …, 2024 - usenix.org
Datacenters need to reduce embodied carbon emissions, particularly for flash, which
accounts for 40% of embodied carbon in servers. However, decreasing flash's embodied …

LEED: A Low-Power, Fast Persistent Key-Value Store on SmartNIC JBOFs

Z Guo, H Zhang, C Zhao, Y Bai, M Swift… - Proceedings of the ACM …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The recent emergence of low-power high-throughput programmable storage platforms-
SmartNIC JBOF (just-a-bunch-of-flash)-motivates us to rethink the cluster architecture and …

Instinfer: In-storage attention offloading for cost-effective long-context llm inference

X Pan, E Li, Q Li, S Liang, Y Shan, K Zhou… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The widespread of Large Language Models (LLMs) marks a significant milestone in
generative AI. Nevertheless, the increasing context length and batch size in offline LLM …

HIOS: A host interface I/O scheduler for solid state disks

M Jung, W Choi, S Srikantaiah, J Yoo… - ACM SIGARCH …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Garbage collection (GC) and resource contention on I/O buses (channels) are among the
critical bottlenecks in Solid State Disks (SSDs) that cannot be easily hidden. Most existing …

Analytic models of SSD write performance

P Desnoyers - ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS), 2014 - dl.acm.org
Solid-state drives (SSDs) update data by writing a new copy, rather than overwriting old
data, causing prior copies of the same data to be invalidated. These writes are performed in …