Abstract
Existing solid state drive (SSD) simulators unfortunately lack hardware and/or software architecture models. Consequently, they are far from capturing the critical features of contemporary SSD devices. More importantly, while the performance of modern systems that adopt SSDs can vary based on their numerous internal design parameters and storage-level configurations, a full system simulation with traditional SSD models often requires unreasonably long runtimes and excessive computational resources. In this work, we propose SimpleSSD, a high-fidelity simulator that models all detailed characteristics of hardware and software, while simplifying the nondescript features of storage internals. In contrast to existing SSD simulators, SimpleSSD can easily be integrated into publicly-available full system simulators. In addition, it can accommodate a complete storage stack and evaluate the performance of SSDs along with diverse memory technologies and microarchitectures. Thus, it facilitates simulations that explore the full design space at different levels of system abstraction.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 37-41 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | IEEE Computer Architecture Letters |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2018 Jan 1 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This research is mainly supported by NRF 2016R1C1B2015312. This work is also supported in part by IITP-2017-2017-0-01015, NRF-2015M3C4A7065645, DOE DE-AC02-05CH 11231, and Mem- Ray grant (2015-11-1731). Dr. Kim is supported in part by US National Science Foundation 1640196 and SRC/NRC NERC 2016- NE-2697-A. Dr. Kandemir is supported in part by US National Science Foundation grants 1439021, 1439057, 1409095, 1626251, 1629915, 1629129 and 1526750.
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© 2017 IEEE.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Hardware and Architecture