A Hardware Filesystem Implementation for High-Speed Secondary Storage

Mendon, Ashwin A.; Sass, Ron

doi:10.1109/reconfig.2008.49

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“…A study [11] stated that the storage's energy overhead and background applications namely instant messaging, electronic mail, synchronization of file, updates for operating system and applications and some OS services can be storage intensive. A study also [12] described that nowadays improvement of storage performance is one of the most essential studies in the mobile phone industry. A sluggish mobile can never meet the developing expectation of end user.…”

Section: Literature Review and Related Workmentioning

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A review on enhancing storage space of smartphone using virtualization

Olaleye

Ranjan

2015

2015 International Conference on Futuristic Trends on Computational Analysis and Knowledge Management (ABLAZE)

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Smartphone usage is almost everywhere. Hardly can you find a person without one except in very remote areas. With this popularity of smartphone usage, still it has limited resources especially in the areas of battery life, processor, screen quality and storage space. This paper has reviewed the importance of enhancing storage space of smartphone using virtualization. The following questions are raised; Can storage affect the performance of mobile applications? Can storage affect the performance of mobile battery? and Can storage be enhanced through the use of virtualization? It was revealed from the review work that storage can affect the performance of mobile applications, storage can affect the performance of mobile battery and storage can be enhanced through the use of virtualization.I.

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Section: Literature Review and Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

A review on enhancing storage space of smartphone using virtualization

Olaleye

Ranjan

2015

2015 International Conference on Futuristic Trends on Computational Analysis and Knowledge Management (ABLAZE)

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“…The first stage focused on a software reference design and hardware simulations to judge the feasibility. This was reported in [16]. The work here describes a design that correctly synthesizes for an FPGA, includes a RAM Disk core to emulate the behavior of a disk controller, and has support for multiple disks in a RAID0 configuration.…”

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“…On completion of a block transaction, the memory interface asserts the blk xfer done signal. The HWFS core has an additional functional improvement over what was reported in [16]. Support for multiple disks has been provided through the use of split transactions on disk controller.…”

Section: Hardware Filesystem Corementioning

confidence: 99%

A Hardware Filesystem Implementation with Multidisk Support

Mendon

Schmidt

Sass

2009

International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing

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Modern High-End Computing systems frequently include FPGAs as compute accelerators. These programmable logic devices now support disk controller IP cores which offer the ability to introduce new, innovative functionalities that, previously, were not practical. This article describes one such innovation: a filesystem implemented in hardware. This has the potential of improving the performance of data-intensive applications by connecting secondary storage directly to FPGA compute accelerators. To test the feasibility of this idea, a Hardware Filesystem was designed with four basic operations (open, read, write, and delete). Furthermore, multi-disk and RAID-0 (striping) support has been implemented as an option in the filesystem. A RAM Disk core was created to emulate a SATA disk drive so results on running FPGA systems could be readily measured. By varying the block size from 64 to 4096 bytes, it was found that 1024 bytes gave the best performance while using a very modest 7% of a Xilinx XC4VFX60's slices and only four (of the 232) BRAM blocks available.

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