Performance analysis of the XDAC disk array system
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Parallel and Distributed Processing, 1994. Proceedings. Sixth IEEE Symposium on
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Parallel and Distributed Processing, 1994. Proceedings. Sixth IEEE Symposium on
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Date Issued
1994-10
Date
1994-10
Author(s)
Lee, Chiung-San
Parng, Tai-Ming
Lee, Jew-Chin
Tsai, Cheng-Nan
Farn, Kwo-Jean
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Abstract
The paper presents an analytical model of a whole disk array architecture, XDAC, which consists of several major subsystems and features: the two-dimensional array structure; IO-bus with split transaction protocol; and cache for processing multiple I/O requests in parallel. Our modelling approach is based on a subsystem access time per request (SATPR) concept, in which we model for each subsystem the mean access time per disk array request. The model is fed with a given set of representative workload parameters and then used to conduct performance analysis for exploring the impact of fork/join synchronization as well as evaluating some architectural design issues of the XDAC system. Moreover, by comparing the SATPRs of subsystems, we can identify the bottleneck for performance improvements.>
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