Abstract

The most common performance bottleneck in today's large-scale commercial computer systems is disk I/O. And the problem is worsening with each new generation of magnetic disk. This article identifies the trends that made this situation inevitable and explains why the next performance revolution will not be the introduction of faster CPUs or exotic new parallel architectures but the widespread use of technology that is already available – semiconductor-based mass storage.

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