A New Approach to I/O Performance Evaluation—Self-Scaling I/O Benchmarks, Predicted I/O Performance

ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 308-339

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Benchmark; client server; Design; disk array; file cache; input output; Measurement; Performance; RAID

Indexed keywords

EID: 84976741198     PISSN: 07342071     EISSN: 15577333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/195792.195812     Document Type: Article

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