Improving application launch times with hybrid disks

Embedded Systems Week 2009 - 7th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Hardware/Software-Co-Design and System Synthesis, CODES+ISSS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 373-382

  Joo, Yongsoo ^a,b   Cho, Youngjin ^a   Lee, Kyungsoo ^a   Chang, Naehyuck ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Application launch; Hybrid disk; Pinned set

Indexed keywords

INTEGER LINEAR PROGRAMMING; LARGE DISKS; LAUNCH SEQUENCE; SEEK TIME; SOLID-STATE MEMORY;

DISKS (MACHINE COMPONENTS); DISKS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; FLASH MEMORY; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; LINEARIZATION;

LAUNCHING;

EID: 72149125296     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1629435.1629486     Document Type: Conference Paper

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