FTL design exploration in reconfigurable high-performance SSD for server applications

Proceedings of the International Conference on Supercomputing

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 338-349

  Shin, Ji Yong ^a,b   Xia, Zeng Lin ^a   Xu, Ning Yi ^a   Rui, Gao ^a   Cai, Xiong Fei ^a   Seungryoul, Maeng ^b   Feng Hsiung, Hsu ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

FTL design; High performance SSD; NAND flash memory; Solid state disk

Indexed keywords

DATA ALLOCATION; DESIGN DECISIONS; DESIGN EXPLORATION; FLASH TRANSLATION LAYER; HARDWARE ARCHITECTURE; HIGH PERFORMANCE SSD; HIGH-SPEED; KEY FACTORS; MAGNETIC DISK; NAND FLASH MEMORY; PERFORMANCE METRICS; RE-CONFIGURABLE; SERVER APPLICATIONS; WEAR LEVELING; WORKLOAD CHARACTERISTICS;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; DISKS (MACHINE COMPONENTS); DISKS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); INTELLIGENT CONTROL; NAND CIRCUITS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; SERVERS; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

FLASH MEMORY;

EID: 70449711367     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1542275.1542324     Document Type: Conference Paper

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