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Abstract
In this paper, we
first
analyze a real storage system consisting of 72 SSDs utilizing either
Hardware RAID
(HW-RAID) or
Software RAID
(SW-RAID), and show that SW-RAID is up to 7× faster. We then reveal that with an increasing number of SSDs, the limited I/O parallelism in SAS controllers and multi-enclosure handshaking overheads cause a significant performance drop, minimizing the total
I/O Per Second
(IOPS) of a 144-SSD system to less than a single SSD.
Second
, we disclose the most important architectural parameters that affect a large-scale storage system.
Third
, we propose a framework that models a large-scale storage system and estimates the system IOPS and system resource usage for various architectures. We verify our framework against a real system and show its high accuracy.
Lastly
, we analyze a use case of a 240-SSD system and reveal how our framework guides architects in storage system scaling.
期刊介绍:
IEEE Computer Architecture Letters is a rigorously peer-reviewed forum for publishing early, high-impact results in the areas of uni- and multiprocessor computer systems, computer architecture, microarchitecture, workload characterization, performance evaluation and simulation techniques, and power-aware computing. Submissions are welcomed on any topic in computer architecture, especially but not limited to: microprocessor and multiprocessor systems, microarchitecture and ILP processors, workload characterization, performance evaluation and simulation techniques, compiler-hardware and operating system-hardware interactions, interconnect architectures, memory and cache systems, power and thermal issues at the architecture level, I/O architectures and techniques, independent validation of previously published results, analysis of unsuccessful techniques, domain-specific processor architectures (e.g., embedded, graphics, network, etc.), real-time and high-availability architectures, reconfigurable systems.