Name
Abstract | ||
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MEMS-based storage devices are seen by many as promising alternatives to disk drives. Fabricated using conventional CMOS processes, MEMS-based storage consists of thousands of small, mechanical probe tips that access gigabytes of high-density, nonvolatile magnetic storage. This paper takes a first step towards understanding the performance characteristics of these devices by mapping them onto a disk-like metaphor. Using simulation models based on the mechanics equations governing the devices' operation, this work explores how different physical characteristics (e.g., actuator forces and per-tip data rates) impact the design trade-offs and performance of MEMS-based storage. Overall results indicate that average access times for MEMS-based storage are 6.5 times faster than for a modern disk (1.5 ms vs. 9.7 ms). Results from filesystem and database bench-marks show that this improvement reduces application I/O stall times up to 70%, resulting in overall performance improvements of 3X. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2000 | 10.1145/339331.339354 | SIGMETRICS |
Keywords | DocType | Volume |
overall result,disk drive,access gigabyte,mems-based storage device,average access time,modern disk,nonvolatile magnetic storage,overall performance improvement,mems-based storage,performance characteristic,reliability,availability,trust,feasibility analysis,security,simulation model | Conference | 28 |
Issue | ISSN | ISBN |
1 | 0163-5999 | 1-58113-194-1 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
42 | 5.41 | 9 |
Authors | ||
4 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Linwood Griffin | 1 | 476 | 35.66 |
| Steven W. Schlosser | 2 | 299 | 23.66 |
| Gregory R. Ganger | 3 | 4560 | 383.16 |
| David F. Nagle | 4 | 623 | 102.85 |