Alleviating garbage collection interference through spatial separation in all flash arrays

J Kim, K Lim, Y Jung, S Lee, C Min… - 2019 USENIX Annual …, 2019 - usenix.org
We present SWAN, a novel All Flash Array (AFA) management scheme. Recent flash SSDs
provide high I/O bandwidth (eg, 3-10GB/s) so the storage bandwidth can easily surpass the …

GCaR: Garbage collection aware cache management with improved performance for flash-based SSDs

S Wu, Y Lin, B Mao, H Jiang - … of the 2016 International Conference on …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Garbage Collection (GC) is an important performance concern for flash-based SSDs,
because it tends to disrupt the normal operations of an SSD. This problem continues to …

Improving the SSD performance by exploiting request characteristics and internal parallelism

B Mao, S Wu, L Duan - … on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the explosive growth in the data volume, the I/O bottleneck has become an increasingly
daunting challenge for big data analytics. It is urgent and important to introduce high …

{BCW}:{Buffer-Controlled} Writes to {HDDs} for {SSD-HDD} Hybrid Storage Server

S Wang, Z Lu, Q Cao, H Jiang, J Yao, Y Dong… - … USENIX Conference on …, 2020 - usenix.org
Hybrid Storage servers combining high-speed SSDs and high-capacity HDDs are designed
for high cost-effectiveness and provide μs-level responsiveness for applications …

Exploration and exploitation for buffer-controlled HDD-Writes for SSD-HDD hybrid storage server

S Wang, Z Lu, Q Cao, H Jiang, J Yao, Y Dong… - ACM Transactions on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Hybrid storage servers combining solid-state drives (SSDs) and hard-drive disks (HDDs)
provide cost-effectiveness and μs-level responsiveness for applications. However …

Improving storage availability in cloud-of-clouds with hybrid redundant data distribution

B Mao, S Wu, H Jiang - 2015 IEEE International Parallel and …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the increasing utilization and popularity of the cloud infrastructure, more and more data
are moved to the cloud storage systems. This makes the availability of cloud storage …

Parallelism and garbage collection aware I/O scheduler with improved SSD performance

J Guo, Y Hu, B Mao, S Wu - 2017 IEEE International Parallel …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose PGIS, a parallelism and garbage collection aware I/O Scheduler,
which identifies the hot data based on trace characteristics to exploit the channel level …

HyCache: A user-level caching middleware for distributed file systems

D Zhao, I Raicu - … IEEE International Symposium on Parallel & …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One of the bottlenecks of distributed file systems deals with mechanical hard drives (HDD).
Although solid-state drives (SSD) have been around since the 1990's, HDDs are still …

POD: Performance oriented I/O deduplication for primary storage systems in the cloud

B Mao, H Jiang, S Wu, L Tian - 2014 IEEE 28th International …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent studies have shown that moderate to high data redundancy clearly exists in primary
storage systems in the Cloud. Our experimental studies reveal that data redundancy exhibits …

Patch-based data management for dual-copy buffers in RAID-enabled SSDs

J Li, Z Sha, Z Cai, F Trahay… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While a dual-copy redundant array of independent disk (RAID) buffering can remove single
point of failure in the buffer of RAID-enabled solid-state drives (SSDs), it loses a half of buffer …