Amber: Enabling precise full-system simulation with detailed modeling of all SSD resources

D Gouk, M Kwon, J Zhang, S Koh… - 2018 51st Annual …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
SSDs become a major storage component in modern memory hierarchies, and SSD
research demands exploring future simulation-based studies by integrating SSD …

{RL-Watchdog}: A Fast and Predictable {SSD} Liveness Watchdog on Storage Systems

JY Ha, S Lee, HY Yeom, Y Son - 2024 USENIX Annual Technical …, 2024 - usenix.org
This paper proposes a reinforcement learning-based watchdog (RLW) that examines solid-
state drive (SSD) liveness or failures by faults (eg, controller/power faults and high …

Scalable parallel flash firmware for many-core architectures

J Zhang, M Kwon, M Swift, M Jung - 18th USENIX Conference on File …, 2020 - usenix.org
NVMe is designed to unshackle flash from a traditional storage bus by allowing hosts to
employ many threads to achieve higher bandwidth. While NVMe enables users to fully …

GFTL: Group-level map** in flash translation layer to provide efficient address translation for NAND flash-based SSDs

Y Pan, Y Li, H Zhang, H Chen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
NAND flash memory has been widely used as data storage devices in consumer electronics,
such as tablet computers and smart phones. Logical-to-physical address translation is …

Thermal time shifting: Leveraging phase change materials to reduce cooling costs in warehouse-scale computers

M Skach, M Arora, CH Hsu, Q Li, D Tullsen… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Datacenters, or warehouse scale computers, are rapidly increasing in size and power
consumption. However, this growth comes at the cost of an increasing thermal load that must …

PR-SSD: Maximizing partial read potential by exploiting compression and channel-level parallelism

M Kang, W Lee, J Kim, S Kim - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent NAND flash memories provide a partial read operation that can read a page partially
and has lower latency than a normal read operation. In order to maximize the benefit of the …

An efficient page-level FTL to optimize address translation in flash memory

Y Zhou, F Wu, P Huang, X He, C **e… - Proceedings of the Tenth …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Flash-based solid state disks (SSDs) have been very popular in consumer and enterprise
storage markets due to their high performance, low energy, shock resistance, and compact …

BIZA: Design of Self-Governing Block-Interface ZNS AFA for Endurance and Performance

S Yi, S Sun, L Peng, Y Sun, MC Yang, Z Cao… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
All-flash array (AFA) has become one of the most popular storage forms in diverse
computing domains. While traditional AFA implementations adopt the block interface to …

Providing SLO compliance on NVMe SSDs through parallelism reservation

SM Huang, LP Chang - ACM Transactions on Design Automation of …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) is a specification for next-generation solid-state disks
(SSDs). Benefited from the massive internal parallelism and the high-speed PCIe bus …

Remap-based inter-partition copy for arrayed solid-state drives

K Han, D Shin - IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The internal copy (IC) is a simple, yet powerful in-storage processing function, which
changes the locations of data blocks without invoking any data transfer between the host …