Workshop on High Performance Disk Array Architectures

本次研讨会将讨论高性能输入/输出体系结构，这是未来十年计算机系统体系结构的关键挑战。重点是确定输入/输出瓶颈和克服这些瓶颈的潜在方法。研讨会特别强调磁盘阵列组织作为实现高性能的载体。该研讨会首次汇集了来自高性能输入/输出所需的整个技术领域的专家。这包括来自磁盘设备、阵列和控制器供应商的代表，以及大型机和超级计算机架构师，以及高速网络和操作系统的生产商。随着计算机计算速度的提高，输入/输出的改进是必不可少的。由于输入/输出技术缺乏突破，输入/输出并行化是解决问题的逻辑途径。本次研讨会解决了这一挑战，通过并行处理和高性能工作站和超级计算机的计算速度来匹配输入/输出速率，这些将在20世纪90年代出现。强烈建议提供支持。

This workshop addresses high-performance input/output architectures, which is a critical computer-system architectural challenge of the next decade. The focus is on identifying the input/output bottlenecks and potential methods for overcoming them. The workshop places a special emphasis on disk array organizations as the vehicle through which high performance is achieved. The workshop brings together, for the first time, experts from across the whole spectrum of technologies needed for high-performance input/output. This include representatives from disk device, array, and controller vendors, as well as mainframe and supercomputer architects, and producers of high speed networks and operating systems. Improvement in input/output is essential as the computational speed of computers grows. Due to a lack of breakthrough in input/output technologies, parallelism in input/output is the logical solution to the problem. This workshop addresses this challenge in matching the input/output rate through parallel processing and the computational speeds of high-performance workstations and supercoputers that will appear in the 1990's. Support is highly recommended.