Date: July 25, 1996
Speaker: David Steere, CMU
Dynamic Sets: A New Approach to Reducing I/O Latency
Abstract:
I/O latency is a serious problem facing modern computer systems. The problem is dramatically apparent to users of the WWW: latency is responsible for the interminable delays you suffer when fetching data. This talk explores a novel solution: using a new abstraction called Dynamic Sets to drive a prefetching engine, which reduces the aggregate latency to access set members. In this talk I will describe dynamic sets, and discuss an implementation which adds support for dynamic sets to the 4.3 BSD file system. I will also present an evaluation of the benefits of dynamic sets in a wide range of domains, including an order of magnitude decrease in I/O latency for search on the WWW.
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