Title :
Interface comparisons: SSA versus FC-AL
Author :
Du, David H C ; Chang, Tai-Sheng ; Hsieh, Jenwei ; Wang, Yuewei ; Shim, Sangyup
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis, MN, USA
Abstract :
The serial storage architecture and fibre channel-arbitrated loop interfaces offer a simple cabling system, higher bandwidth, the ability to connect more than 100 disks, fault tolerance, and fair accesses on the channel. This article investigates the performance of these two emerging serial storage interfaces for fairness, latency, overhead and aggregate throughput under various traffic loads
Keywords :
cache storage; fault tolerant computing; magnetic disc storage; memory architecture; performance evaluation; peripheral interfaces; FC-AL; SSA; aggregate throughput; bandwidth; cache; disks; fair access; fairness; fault tolerance; fibre channel-arbitrated loop interfaces; latency; overhead; performance; serial storage architecture; serial storage interfaces; simple cabling system; traffic loads; Aggregates; Bandwidth; Computational modeling; Computer interfaces; Distributed computing; Fault tolerance; Optical fiber cables; Telecommunication traffic; Testing; Transport protocols;
Journal_Title :
Concurrency, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/4434.678818
