Exploiting the performance gains of modern disk drives by enhancing data locality.

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dc.contributor.authorDeng, Yuhui
dc.date.accessioned2009-07-11T14:09:53Z
dc.date.available2009-07-11T14:09:53Z
dc.date.issued2009-06-27
dc.description.abstractDue to the widening performance gap between RAM and disk drives, a large number of I/O optimization methods have been proposed and designed to alleviate the impact of this gap. One of the most effective approaches of improving disk access performance is enhancing data locality. This is because the method could increase the hit ratio of disk cache and reduce the seek time and rotational latency. Disk drives have experienced dramatic development since the first disk drive was announced in 1956. This paper investigates some important characteristics of modern disk drives. Based on the characteristics and the observation that data access on disk drives is highly skewed, the frequently accessed data blocks and the correlated data blocks are clustered into objects and moved to the outer zones of a modern disk drive. The idea attempts to enhance spatial locality, improve the efficiency of aggressive sequential prefetch, and take advantage of Zoned Bit Recording (ZBR). An experimental simulation is employed to investigate the performance gains generated by the enhanced data locality. The performance gains are analyzed by breaking down the disk access time into seek time, rotational latency, data transfer time, and hit ratio of the disk cache. Experimental results provide useful insights into the performance behaviours of a modern disk drive with enhanced data locality.en_UK
dc.identifier.citationYuhui Deng, Exploiting the performance gains of modern disk drives by enhancing data locality, Information Sciences, Volume 179, Issue 14, Including Special Section - Linguistic Decision Making - Tools and Applications, 27 June 2009, Pages 2494-2511en_UK
dc.identifier.issn0020-0255
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2009.02.002
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1826/3463
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherElsevieren_UK
dc.subjectDisk driveen_UK
dc.subjectData localityen_UK
dc.subjectData access patternen_UK
dc.subjectBlock correlationen_UK
dc.subjectData migrationen_UK
dc.subjectPerformanceen_UK
dc.titleExploiting the performance gains of modern disk drives by enhancing data locality.en_UK
dc.typeArticleen_UK

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