Title
Eco-Storage: A Hybrid Storage System with Energy-Efficient Informed Prefetching
Abstract
In this paper, we present an energy-aware informed prefetching technique called Eco-Storage that makes use of the application-disclosed access patterns to group the informed prefetching process in a hybrid storage system (e.g., hard disk drive and solid state disks). Since the SSDs are more energy efficient than HDDs, aggressive prefetching for the data in the HDD level enables it to have as much standby time as possible in order to save power. In the Eco-Storage system, the application can still read its on-demand I/O reading requests from the hybrid storage system while the data blocks are prefetched in groups from HDD to SSD. We show that these two steps can be handled in parallel to decreases the system's power consumption. Our Eco-Storage technique differs from existing energy-aware prefetching schemes in two ways. First, Eco-Storage is implemented in a hybrid storage system where the SDD level is more energy efficient. Second, it can group the informed prefetching process and quickly prefetch the data from the HDD to the SSD to increase the frequent HDD standby times. This will makes the application finds most of its on-demand I/O reading requests in the SSD level. Finally, we develop a simulator to evaluate our Eco-Storage system performance. Our results show that our Eco-Storage reduces the power consumption by at least 75 % when compared with the worst case of non-Eco-Storage case using a real-world I/O trace.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1007/s11265-013-0784-9
Signal Processing Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
Informed prefetching,Power consumption,Parallel storage systems,Hybrid storage system
Efficient energy use,Computer science,Parallel computing,Real-time computing,Hybrid storage system,Instruction prefetch,Solid-state,Embedded system,Power consumption
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
72
3
1939-8018
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
0.53
26
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Maen M. Al Assaf1303.28
Xunfei Jiang2569.40
Mohamed Riduan Abid3144.39
Xiao Qin41836125.69