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From: doc@tera.com (Dan Cummings)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.super
Subject: Re: I/O
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Date: 15 Jun 90 00:01:30 GMT
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Advances in I/O performance will lag behind advances in CPU speed for
some time to come but there is rather a lot that can be done with 
current technology and current 3600 RPM disks to improve I/O performance.
Just as a start I would refer interested parties to the papers coming
from John Ousterhout and his group at UC Berkeley on Log Structured File
Systems and RAIDs (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks).   After
digesting all of this information I invite you to come up to Seattle
and see what we are doing at Tera Computer for high speed I/O.   
Another good stab at increasing I/O speed is found in the LD cache
approach used in Unicos on the Cray YMP.

Don't give up yet!

Dan Cummings
doc@tera.com