Intelligent Disk-to-LAN Integration Strategy & Performance Modeling for Multimedia Servers

Abstract

In this paper, we have focused on the current I20 [1] (Intelligent I/O) architecture and have proposed and intelligent integration strategy for disk and LAN adapters. To describe the performance of this new architecture, a reasonable model is also given in this paper. The goal of our experiment is to set up an accelerating channel between disk and LAN interfaces. Our simulation result gives readers an expressively answer about how the Disk-to-LAN performance can be improved by the intelligent integration. With this technology, a multimedia server which needs high I/O bandwidth can achieve a better performance.