A case for redundant arrays of inexpensive disks (RAID)
SIGMOD '88 Proceedings of the 1988 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
An Evaluation of Multiple-Disk I/O Systems
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Simple low-cost multiprocessor based on message passing FIFO links
Microprocessors & Microsystems
A study of I/O system organizations
ISCA '92 Proceedings of the 19th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
RAID: high-performance, reliable secondary storage
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Data Engineering
Dynamic File-Access Characteristics of a Production Parallel Scientific Workload
Dynamic File-Access Characteristics of a Production Parallel Scientific Workload
Disk-directed I/O for MIMD Multiprocessors
Disk-directed I/O for MIMD Multiprocessors
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Performance of I/O intensive applications on a multiprocessor system depends mostly on the variety of disk access delays encountered in the I/O system. Over the years, the improvement in disk performance has taken place more slowly than the corresponding increase in processor speeds. It is therefore necessary to model I/O delays and evaluate performance benefits of moving an application to a better multiprocessor system. We perform such an analysis by measuring I/O delays for a synthesized application that uses a parallel distributed file system. The aim of this study is to evaluate the performance benefits of better disks in a multiprocessor system. We report on how the I/O performance would be affected if an application were to run on a system which would have better disks and communication links. In this study, we show a substantial improvement in the performance of an I/O system with better disks and communication links with respect to the existing system.