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- research-articleOctober 2023
The Dirty Secret of SSDs: Embodied Carbon
ACM SIGEnergy Energy Informatics Review (SIGENERGY-EIR), Volume 3, Issue 3Pages 4–9https://doi.org/10.1145/3630614.3630616Scalable Solid-State Drives (SSDs) have ushered in a transformative era in data storage and accessibility, spanning both data centers and portable devices. However, the strides made in scaling this technology can bear significant environmental ...
- research-articleAugust 2018
Disk Failure Prediction in Data Centers via Online Learning
ICPP '18: Proceedings of the 47th International Conference on Parallel ProcessingArticle No.: 35, Pages 1–10https://doi.org/10.1145/3225058.3225106Disk failure has become a major concern with the rapid expansion of storage systems in data centers. Based on SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) attributes, many researchers derive disk failure prediction models using machine ...
- research-articleApril 2017
Using Libception to Understand and Improve HTTP Streaming Video Server Throughput
ICPE '17: Proceedings of the 8th ACM/SPEC on International Conference on Performance EngineeringPages 51–62https://doi.org/10.1145/3030207.3030231Video streaming applications generate a large fraction of Internet traffic. Much of this content is delivered over HTTP using standard web servers. Unlike other types of web workloads, HTTP video streaming workloads are typically disk bound, and ...
- posterJune 2016
Modeling SMR Drive Performance
SIGMETRICS '16: Proceedings of the 2016 ACM SIGMETRICS International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer SciencePages 389–390https://doi.org/10.1145/2896377.2901496Also Published in:
ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review: Volume 44 Issue 1 - ArticleOctober 2015
I/O-Cache: A Non-volatile Memory Based Buffer Cache Policy to Improve Storage Performance
MASCOTS '15: Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE 23rd International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication SystemsPages 102–111https://doi.org/10.1109/MASCOTS.2015.12Most computer systems currently consist of DRAM as main memory and hard disk drives (HDDs) as storage devices. Due to the volatile nature of DRAM, the main memory may suffer from data loss in the event of power failures or system crashes. With rapid ...
- ArticleOctober 2012
Multiple-Instance Learning for Hard Disk Drive Failure Prediction
ICECC '12: Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Electronics, Communications and ControlPages 1822–1825A hard disk drive (HDD) is a critical component in computers. The failure of HDD can result in the users' data loss and computer downtime. Both consequences cause inconveniences to the users. Therefore, detecting the impending failure of HDDs becomes a ...
- ArticleJune 2012
A study of soft error consequences in hard disk drives
Hard disk drives have multiple layers of fault tolerance mechanisms that protect against data loss. However, a few failures occasionally breach the entire set of mechanisms. To prevent such scenarios, we rely on failure prediction mechanisms to raise ...
- research-articleMay 2011
Hystor: making the best use of solid state drives in high performance storage systems
ICS '11: Proceedings of the international conference on SupercomputingPages 22–32https://doi.org/10.1145/1995896.1995902With the fast technical improvement, flash memory based Solid State Drives (SSDs) are becoming an important part of the computer storage hierarchy to significantly improve performance and energy efficiency. However, due to its relatively high price and ...
- research-articleMarch 2011
Using Lossless Data Compression in Data Storage Systems: Not for Saving Space
IEEE Transactions on Computers (ITCO), Volume 60, Issue 3Pages 335–345https://doi.org/10.1109/TC.2010.150Lossless data compression for data storage has become less popular as mass data storage systems are becoming increasingly cheap. This leaves many files stored on mass data storage media uncompressed although they are losslessly compressible. This paper ...
- ArticleJuly 2009
FAXtrac: Fast Extraction of Disk Layout
NAS '09: Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and StoragePages 309–314https://doi.org/10.1109/NAS.2009.59The low-level disk characteristics play a vital role for the I/O performance optimization in disk storage systems. This paper presents FAXtrac, a tool for automatically and efficiently extracting the exact disk layout, i.e., the number of sectors of ...
- ArticleJune 2009
Characteristic analysis of ultrathin film gas lubrication based on modified Reynolds equation in hard disk drive
CCDC'09: Proceedings of the 21st annual international conference on Chinese control and decision conferencePages 4462–4465In this paper, the authors firstly devote to develop an improved model based on FK-Boltzmann model suitable to arbitrary Knudsen numbers. Then, an effective numerical method is proposed to calculate the modified Reynolds equation for ultra-thin gas film ...
- research-articleJune 2009
Understanding intrinsic characteristics and system implications of flash memory based solid state drives
SIGMETRICS '09: Proceedings of the eleventh international joint conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systemsPages 181–192https://doi.org/10.1145/1555349.1555371Flash Memory based Solid State Drive (SSD) has been called a "pivotal technology" that could revolutionize data storage systems. Since SSD shares a common interface with the traditional hard disk drive (HDD), both physically and logically, an effective ...
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ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review: Volume 37 Issue 1 - ArticleJune 2009
Adaptive disturbance rejection in the presence of uncertain resonance mode in hard disk drives
An adaptive on-line scheme is designed to identify the uncertain and time-varying resonance modes in hard disk drive servo systems. Based on the identified results, the uncertain resonance mode is extracted and a peak filter is designed accordingly to ...
- ArticleApril 2008
Throttling On-Disk Schedulers to Meet Soft-Real-Time Requirements
RTAS '08: Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications SymposiumPages 331–341https://doi.org/10.1109/RTAS.2008.30Many contemporary disk drives have built-in queues andschedulers. These features can improve I/O performance,by offloading work from the system’s main processor, avoiding disk idle time, and taking advantage of vendor-specific disk characteristics. At ...
- ArticleApril 2008
Verification skip writes head-positioning error mechanism using skip writes problem detection
ROCOM'08: Proceedings of the 8th WSEAS International Conference on Robotics, Control and Manufacturing TechnologyPages 151–155HDD-structure interaction is one of the main issues facing the development of the hard disk drive (HDD) system while as they operate at high rotational speeds. Writing instability of HDD has affected related to difficulty in read-write in a HDD. This ...
- research-articleFebruary 2008
Automatic visual inspection of bump in hard disk drive component using neural network and image processing
CGIM '08: Proceedings of the Tenth IASTED International Conference on Computer Graphics and ImagingPages 112–116This paper presents the progressive development of the automatic visual inspection system for hard disk drive manufacturing. The developed system is applied to inspect the flip-chip solder joints called 'bump' on the flexible PCB. In the designed system,...
- research-articleJanuary 2007
Multirate controller for dual actuated servomechanism in hard disk drive
This paper concerns the design and implementation of a multirate controller for a dual-actuated servomechanism used in hard disk drive (HDD). The design following the decoupled master-slave structure is carried out in two steps. A state feedback ...
- articleSeptember 2001
