Recent technological advances in the development of flash-memory based devices have
consolidated their leadership position as the preferred storage media in the embedded …

Scheduling diverse applications in large, shared clusters is particularly challenging. Recent
research on cluster scheduling focuses either on scheduling speed, using sampling to …

NAND flash memory-based solid-state disks (SSDs) are becoming popular as the storage
media in domains ranging from mobile laptops to enterprise-scale storage systems due to a …

Modern solid-state drives (SSDs) use new host-interface protocols, such as NVMe, to
provide applications with fast access to storage. These new protocols make use of a concept …

Unlike the use of DRAM for caching or buffering, certain idiosyncrasies of SSDs make their
integration into existing systems non-trivial. Flash memory suffers from limits on its reliability …

NAND flash memory is a preferred storage media for various platforms ranging from
embedded systems to enterprise-scale systems. Flash devices do not have any mechanical …

Understanding workload characteristics is critical for optimizing and improving the
performance of current systems and software, and architecting new storage systems based …

Use of flash memory as a storage medium is becoming popular in diverse computing
environments. However, because of differences in interface, flash memory requires a hard …

I/O traces are good sources of information about realworld workloads; replaying such traces
is often used to reproduce the most realistic system behavior possible. But traces tend to be …

Although solid-state drives (SSDs) offer significant performance improvements over hard
disk drives (HDDs) for a number of workloads, they can exhibit substantial variance in …