Evaluating phase change memory for enterprise storage systems: A study of caching and tiering approaches

Proceedings of the 12th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies, FAST 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 33-45

  Kim, Hyojun ^a   Seshadri, Sangeetha ^a   Dickey, Clement L ^a   Chiu, Lawrence ^a  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; HARD DISK STORAGE; PHASE CHANGE MEMORY; VIRTUAL STORAGE;

ACADEMIC COMMUNITY; COST CONSTRAINTS; ENTRENCHED TECHNOLOGIES; HOLISTIC PERSPECTIVES; IMPROVE PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS; PERFORMANCE STUDY; PHASE CHANGE MEMORY (PCM);

FLASH-BASED SSDS;

EID: 84976522187     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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