The Tower of Pizzas
Abstract
CPU speeds are increasing at a much faster rate than secondary storage
device speeds. Many important applications face an I/O bottleneck.
We demonstrate that this bottleneck can be alleviated through 1)
scalable striping of data and 2) caching/prefetching techniques. This
paper describes the design and performance of the Tower of Pizzas
(TOPs), a portable software system providing parallel I/O and
buffering services.
(Also cross-referenced as UMIACS-TR-95-52)