STABLE MEMORY FOR A DISK WRITE CACHE

Authors
COGHLAN BA JONES JO
Citation
Ba. Coghlan et Jo. Jones, STABLE MEMORY FOR A DISK WRITE CACHE, Microprocessing and microprogramming, 41(1), 1995, pp. 53-70
Citations number
17
Categorie Soggetti
Computer Sciences","Computer Science Hardware & Architecture
Journal title
Microprocessing and microprogramming → ACNP
ISSN journal
01656074
Volume
41
Issue
1
Year of publication
1995
Pages
53 - 70
Database
ISI
SICI code
0165-6074(1995)41:1<53:SMFADW>2.0.ZU;2-R
Abstract
Lack of I/O performance is fast becoming a limiting factor in many com puting systems. The yearly doubling of CPU speeds is not being matched by corresponding gains in I/O performance. This paper explores one as pect of the architecture of a high performance fault-tolerant cached R AID subsystem for a multiprocessor. The disk write cache is implemente d as a memory-mapped stable memory. The features of a VRAM-based stabl e memory and its associated RAID controller are discussed.