A new study by the TSYS School’s Yi Zhou and colleagues from both Jinan
University (China) and Auburn University proposes a new scheme to boost the
performance of NAND flash-based solid state devices. As they explain, garbage collection (GC)
plays a pivotal role in the performance of 3D NAND flash memory, where “copy back,”
which is an operation where data are read from one location and copied to
another location, has been widely used to accelerate valid page migration
during garbage collection.
Unfortunately, copy back is constrained by a parity symmetry issue such
that data read from an odd/even page must be written to an odd/even page. After migrating two odd/even consecutive
pages, a free page between the two migrated pages will be wasted. These wasted pages noticeably lower free space
on flash memory and cause extra garbage collections, thereby degrading solid
state device performance. To address
this problem, the study by Zhou and colleagues, which is set to appear in a
forthcoming issue of ACM Transactions on
Storage, proposes a page-state-aware cache scheme called PSA-Cache, which
prevents page waste by breaking odd/even consecutive pages in subsequent
garbage collections. The study quantitatively
evaluates the performance of PSA-Cache in terms of the number of wasted pages,
the number of garbage collections, and response time by comparing it to two
state-of-art schemes, GCaR and TTflash.
The experiments reveal that PSA-Cache outperforms the existing schemes. More specifically, PSA-Cache curtails the
number of wasted pages that result from implementation of GCaR and TTflash by
25.7% and 62.1%, respectively. Moreover,
PSA-Cache cuts back the number of garbage collection counts by as much as 78.7%,
while it reduces the average write response time by up to 85.4%.
The Turner College's new marketing intern Lizzy Grant , a senior marketing major from Newnan who previously attended Gordon State College, where she played varsity soccer, and is scheduled to graduate from the Turner College in May of 2024, has hit the ground running in her new position. She recently played a large role in the creation of a video tour of the Synovus Center, the main campus home of the Turner College. The video helps to guide new students on where to go in the building and who they can talk to if they help. The video showcases the Student Services Center, the main lobby, and more. The video is played as part of a loop on video screens placed throughout the Synovus Center. Lizzy's list of activities at CSU is impressive. She is the Treasurer of the Turner College's Marketing Club, the President of Marketing for the Turner College's chapter of the Financial Management Association, and an Ambassador for the Turner College. She is also the Treasurer of her s
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