SimpleSSD: Modeling Solid State Drives for Holistic System Simulation
Abstract
Existing solid state drive (SSD) simulators unfortunately lack hardware and/or software architecture models. Consequently, they are far from capturing the critical features of contemporary SSD devices. More importantly, while the performance of modern systems that adopt SSDs can vary based on their numerous internal design parameters and storage-level configurations, a full system simulation with traditional SSD models often requires unreasonably long runtimes and excessive computational resources. In this work, we propose SimpleSSD, a highfidelity simulator that models all detailed characteristics of hardware and software, while simplifying the nondescript features of storage internals. In contrast to existing SSD simulators, SimpleSSD can easily be integrated into publicly-available full system simulators. In addition, it can accommodate a complete storage stack and evaluate the performance of SSDs along with diverse memory technologies and microarchitectures. Thus, it facilitates simulations that explore the full design space at different levels of system abstraction.
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@article{arxiv.1705.06419,
title = {SimpleSSD: Modeling Solid State Drives for Holistic System Simulation},
author = {Myoungsoo Jung and Jie Zhang and Ahmed Abulila and Miryeong Kwon and Narges Shahidi and John Shalf and Nam Sung Kim and Mahmut Kandemir},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.06419},
year = {2017}
}
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This paper has been accepted at IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL)