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In today's global economy, supply chain (SC) entities have become increasingly interconnected with demand and supply relationships due to the need for strategic outsourcing. Such interdependence among firms not only increases efficiency but…
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As the cost-per-byte of storage systems dramatically decreases, SSDs are finding their ways in emerging cloud infrastructure. Similar trend is happening for main memory subsystem, as advanced DRAM technologies with higher capacity,…
We propose a novel solid-state disk (SSD) architecture that utilizes a double-data-rate synchronous NAND flash interface for improving read and write performance. Unlike the conventional design, the data transfer rate in the proposed design…
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