As a cache eviction algorithm, FIFO has a lot of attractive properties, such as simplicity,
speed, scalability, and flash-friendliness. The most prominent criticism of FIFO is its low …

Although users of high-performance computing are most interested in raw performance, both
energy and power consumption have become critical concerns. Some microprocessors …

Most mobile devices are equipped with a NAND flash memory even if it has characteristics
of not-in-place update and asymmetric I/O latencies among read, write, and erase …

Sequentiality of requested blocks on disks, or their spatial locality, is critical to the
performance of disks, where the throughput of accesses to sequentially placed disk blocks …

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 …

Containers offer an efficient way to run workloads as independent microservices that can be
developed, tested and deployed in an agile manner. To facilitate this process, container …

Flash memory has recently become popular as a caching medium. Most uses to date are on
the storage server side. We investigate a different structure: flash as a cache on the client …

NAND-based solid-state (flash) drives are known for providing better performance than
magnetic disk drives, but they have limits on endurance, the number of times data can be …

Companies, government agencies, and other organizations have been analyzing data
pertaining to their internal operations with great effect, such as in evaluating performance or …

As Linux runs an increasing variety of workloads, its in-kernel readahead algorithm has
been challenged by many unexpected and subtle problems. To name a few: readahead …