TY - GEN
T1 - A comprehensive benchmark suite for emerging solid state drives
AU - Tambi, Anupam Anand
AU - Chen, Yong
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Solid-state drives (SSDs) bring a fundamental change to the landscape of storage systems and are generally agreed as the replacement of hard-disk drives (HDDs) in the future. Benchmarking is used extensively to measure and compare the performance of storage systems. However, conventional benchmarks designed for spinning HDDs are not sufficient for benchmarking SSDs, and do not show insights of the measurement well. There is a need to design and develop benchmarks specifically for SSDs and measure the features comprehensively. Such benchmarks are useful in many scenarios, such as assisting the selection and deployment of SSD-based storage systems, evaluating the new design of SSDs, identifying the strengths and weakness of an SSD and finding the best workload for it, etc. We propose a Comprehensive Benchmark Suite for SSDs (CBS-SSD) to benchmark and measure the features of SSDs thoroughly. This study presents the initial design, implementation, and evaluation of CBSSSD. We believe that the proposed CBS-SSD is a more suitable benchmark suite for SSDs than existing benchmarks, and it will have an impact in the data-intensive high-performance computing era.
AB - Solid-state drives (SSDs) bring a fundamental change to the landscape of storage systems and are generally agreed as the replacement of hard-disk drives (HDDs) in the future. Benchmarking is used extensively to measure and compare the performance of storage systems. However, conventional benchmarks designed for spinning HDDs are not sufficient for benchmarking SSDs, and do not show insights of the measurement well. There is a need to design and develop benchmarks specifically for SSDs and measure the features comprehensively. Such benchmarks are useful in many scenarios, such as assisting the selection and deployment of SSD-based storage systems, evaluating the new design of SSDs, identifying the strengths and weakness of an SSD and finding the best workload for it, etc. We propose a Comprehensive Benchmark Suite for SSDs (CBS-SSD) to benchmark and measure the features of SSDs thoroughly. This study presents the initial design, implementation, and evaluation of CBSSSD. We believe that the proposed CBS-SSD is a more suitable benchmark suite for SSDs than existing benchmarks, and it will have an impact in the data-intensive high-performance computing era.
KW - Benchmarking
KW - Solid State Drives
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84859033215&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/2148600.2148641
DO - 10.1145/2148600.2148641
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84859033215
SN - 9781450310307
T3 - SC'11 - Proceedings of the 2011 High Performance Computing Networking, Storage and Analysis Companion, Co-located with SC'11
SP - 79
EP - 81
BT - SC'11 - Proceedings of the 2011 High Performance Computing Networking, Storage and Analysis Companion, Co-located with SC'11
Y2 - 12 November 2011 through 18 November 2011
ER -