A new approach to I/O performance evaluation-self-scaling I/O benchmarks, predicted I/O performance

Proceedings of the 1993 ACM SIGMETRICS Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, SIGMETRICS 1993

Volumn , Issue , 1993, Pages 1-12

  Chen, Peter M ^a   Patterson, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOLS;

ACCURATE PERFORMANCE; COMPARATIVE PERFORMANCE; DISK ARRAY; NEW APPROACHES; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; PREDICTED PERFORMANCE; SINGLE POINT;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 84897537252     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/166955.166966     Document Type: Conference Paper

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