Is your memory hierarchy stopping your microprocessor from performing at the high level it
should be? Memory Systems: Cache, DRAM, Disk shows you how to resolve this problem …

In this article we discuss the strategic directions and challenges in the management and use
of storage systems—those components of computer systems responsible for the storage and …

DiskSim is an efficient, accurate and highly-configurable disk system simulator developed to
support research into various aspects of storage subsystem architecture. It includes modules …

When you think about how far and fast computer science has progressed in recent years, it's
not hard to conclude that a seven-year old handbook may fall a little short of the kind of …

We introduce Skylight, a novel methodology that combines software and hardware
techniques to reverse engineer key properties of drive-managed Shingled Magnetic …

Excessive power consumption is a major barrier to the market acceptance of hard disks in
mobile electronic devices. Studying and reducing power consumption, however, often …

This paper sets out to clear up a misconception prominent in the storage community today,
that SCSI disc drives and IDE (ATA) disc drives are the same technology internally, and …

Current disk prefetch policies in major operating systems track access patterns at the level of
the file abstraction. While this is useful for exploiting application-level access patterns, file …

Abstract, File system designers today face a dilemma. A log-structured file system (LFS) can
offer superior performance for many common workloads such as those with frequent small …

Small file performance in most file systems is limited by slowly improving disk access times,
even though current file systems improve on-disk locality by allocating related data objects …