Supporting continuous media: is Serial Storage Architecture (SSA) better than SCSI?

Author

Shim, Sangyup ; Chang, Taisheng ; Wang, Yuewei ; Hsieh, Jenwei ; Du, David H. C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis, MN, USA

fYear

1997

fDate

3-6 Jun 1997

Firstpage

640

Lastpage

641

Abstract

The existing SCSI (Small Computer System Interface) parallel bus has been widely used in supporting multimedia applications. However, it may not fully utilize the aggregate throughput from disks in supporting continuous media because of its unfair bus accesses. The emerging serial interface, Serial Storage Architecture (SSA), provides high data bandwidth, fair accesses and fault tolerance. The fairness algorithm in SSA ensures that a fraction of the data bandwidth is allocated to each disk. In this paper, we study the performance of SSA and SCSI in supporting continuous media

Keywords

fault tolerant computing; memory architecture; multimedia computing; performance evaluation; peripheral interfaces; SCSI; SSA; Serial Storage Architecture; Small Computer System Interface; aggregate throughput; bus accesses; continuous media; data bandwidth allocation; disks; fairness algorithm; fault tolerance; multimedia applications; parallel bus; performance; serial interface; Aggregates; Application software; Bandwidth; Computer architecture; Computer science; Fault tolerance; Jitter; Network servers; Resource management; Throughput;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia Computing and Systems '97. Proceedings., IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Ottawa, Ont.

Print_ISBN

0-8186-5530-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MMCS.1997.609795

Filename

609795