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Automated disk drive characterization (poster session)

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Joint International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems archive
Proceedings of the 2000 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems table of contents

Santa Clara, California, United States

Pages: 112 - 113

Year of Publication: 2000

ISBN:1-58113-194-1

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Jiri Schindler	Carnegie Mellon university, Pittsburgh, PA
Gregory R. Ganger	Carnegie Mellon university, Pittsburgh, PA

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SIGMETRICS: ACM Special Interest Group on Measurement and Evaluation

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

DIXtrac is a program that automatically characterizes the performance of modern disk drives. This extended abstract overviews the contents of [3], which describes and validates DIXtrac's algorithms for extracting accurate values for over 100 performance-critical parameters in 2-6 minutes without human intervention or special hardware support. The extracted data includes detailed layout and geometry information, mechanical timings, cache management policies, and command processing overheads. DIXtrac is validated by configuring a detailed disk simulator with its extracted parameters; in most cases, the resulting accuracies match those of the most accurate disk simulators reported in the literature. To date, DIXtrac has been successfully used on ten different models from four different manufacturers. A growing database of validated disk characteristics is available in DiskSim [1] format at http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/disksim/diskspecs.html.

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	1	G. R. Ganger, B. L. Worthington, and Y. N. Patt. The DiskSim simulation environment. Technical Report CSE-TR-358-98, Dept. of Electrical: Engineering and Computer Science, Univ. of Michigan, February 1998.
	2	Chris Ruemmler , John Wilkes, An introduction to disk drive modeling, Computer, v.27 n.3, p.17-28, March 1994 [doi>10.1109/2.268881]
	3	J. Schindler and G. R. Ganger. Automated disk drive characterization. Technical Report CMU-CS-99- 176, Carnegie Mellon University, December 1999":~
	4	Bruce L. Worthington , Gregory R. Ganger , Yale N. Patt , John Wilkes, On-line extraction of SCSI disk drive parameters, Proceedings of the 1995 ACM SIGMETRICS joint international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems, p.146-156, May 15-19, 1995, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada