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A Hardware Filesystem Implementation with Multidisk Support
Joint Authors
Sass, Ron
Schmidt, Andrew G.
Mendon, Ashwin A.
Source
International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing
Issue
Vol. 2009, Issue 2009 (31 Dec. 2009), pp.1-13, 13 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2009-10-27
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
13
Main Subjects
Information Technology and Computer Science
Abstract EN
Modern High-End Computing systems frequently include FPGAs as compute accelerators.
These programmable logic devices now support disk controller IP cores which offer the ability to introduce new, innovative functionalities that, previously, were not practical.
This article describes one such innovation: a filesystem implemented in hardware.
This has the potential of improving the performance of data-intensive applications by connecting secondary storage directly to FPGA compute accelerators.
To test the feasibility of this idea, a Hardware Filesystem was designed with four basic operations (open, read, write, and delete).
Furthermore, multi-disk and RAID-0 (striping) support has been implemented as an option in the filesystem.
A RAM Disk core was created to emulate a SATA disk drive so results on running FPGA systems could be readily measured.
By varying the block size from 64 to 4096 bytes, it was found that 1024 bytes gave the best performance while using a very modest 7% of a Xilinx XC4VFX60's slices and only four (of the 232) BRAM blocks available.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Mendon, Ashwin A.& Schmidt, Andrew G.& Sass, Ron. 2009. A Hardware Filesystem Implementation with Multidisk Support. International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing،Vol. 2009, no. 2009, pp.1-13.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Mendon, Ashwin A.…[et al.]. A Hardware Filesystem Implementation with Multidisk Support. International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing No. 2009 (2009), pp.1-13.
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American Medical Association (AMA)
Mendon, Ashwin A.& Schmidt, Andrew G.& Sass, Ron. A Hardware Filesystem Implementation with Multidisk Support. International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing. 2009. Vol. 2009, no. 2009, pp.1-13.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-481809
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-481809