• I/O Traces
  • Accurate Tracing Framework for Solid-State Drives
  • SSD-Based Workload Characteristics and their Performance Implications (YCSB RocksDB SSD)
  • Enterprise Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (systor'17)
  • Fast Distribution with Lazy Docker Containers (Slacker)
  • I/O Characteristics of Smartphone Applications and Their Implications for eMMC Design (Nexus 5 Smartphone)
  • 3 weeks of traces collected during the period 11/01/08-11/21/08 (Link to paper)
  • I/O patterns generated by standard data center servers (Link to paper)
  • blktrace
  • SSD open data
  • Alibaba Cluster Trace Program
  • Alibaba Block Traces
  • ATLAS Traces

Toolsets, Disk Protocols, and Form Factors

• Review of Linux Performance Analysis Tools, by AmirHossein Moradi
• Review of Disk Form Factors: ATA, SATA, SAS, & NVMe by AmirHossein Moradi
• Storage Performance Development Kit (SPDK) by AmirHossein Moradi

HPC Toolsets

• Review of HPC Resource Management Tools: Slurm & Torque, by Elham Adibi
• Tutorial & Installation of Slurm Scheduler, by Elham Adibi