Flash Memory Integration: Performance and Energy Issues

4 zettabytes (4 billion terabytes) of data generated in 2013, 44 zettabytes predicted for 2020 and 185 zettabytes for 2025. These figures are staggering and perfectly illustrate this new era of data deluge. Data has become a major economic and social challenge. The speed of processing of these data is the weakest link in a computer system: the storage system. It is therefore crucial to optimize this operation. During the last decade, storage systems have experienced a major revolution: the advent of flash memory.

Flash Memory Integration: Performance and Energy Issues contributes to a better understanding of these revolutions. The authors offer us an insight into the integration of flash memory in computer systems, their behavior in performance and in power consumption compared to traditional storage systems. The book also presents, in their entirety, various methods for measuring the performance and energy consumption of storage systems for embedded as well as desktop/server computer systems. We are invited on a journey to the memories of the future.

Ideal for computer scientists, featuring low level details to concentrate on system issuesTackles flash memory aspects while spanning domains such as embedded systems and HPCContains an exhaustive set of experimental results conducted in the Lab-STICC laboratoryProvides details on methodologies to perform performance and energy measurements on flash storage systems

Part 1: Introduction 1. General Introduction 2. Flash Memories: Structure and Constraints 3. Evaluation of Performance and Power Consumption of Storage Systems

Part 2: Embedded Domain and File Systems for Flash Memory: Flash File Systems 4. Flash File Systems 5. Methodology for Performance and Power Consumption Exploration of Flash File Systems 6. Performance and Power Consumption of Dedicated File Systems: Experimental Results

Part 3: Flash Translation Layers 7. Flash Translation Layer 8. Methodology for the Evaluation of SSD Performance and Power Consumption 9. Performance and Power Consumption of SSD Based Systems: Experimental Results

Part 4: Emerging Non-volatile Memories 10. Emerging Non-volatile Memories