Zhou and Co-Authors Examine Performance of Storage Systems in Latest Research

The TSYS School’s Yi Zhou and colleagues from Jinan University and Auburn University examine the performance of storage systems in their new research project. As they explain, garbage collection running in the controller of 3D NAND flash-based solid-state disks plays a critical role in that performance, and solid-state disk manufacturers have developed various garbage collection solutions based on internal data movement to mitigate the impacts of garbage collection on request latency. According to Zhou, “Due to the circuit characteristics of flash memory, existing internal data movement-based garbage collection strategies require that odd pages must be migrated to odd pages, and even pages to even pages. When migrating two consecutive pages with the same parity, the free page between the two migrated pages will be wasted after the migration is complete.” As the study explains, this issue inevitably deteriorates the storage space utilization of flash memory, thereby degrading the overall performance of 3D NAND flash-based solid-state disks. Zhou and his co-authors propose a parity-check garbage collection scheme to revamp solid-state disk performance by alleviating page waste during garbage collection. Their investigation, which is set to appear in a future issue of IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, resulted in development of a parity-check unit to facilitate checking the parity of migrated valid pages and destination pages. Testing reveals that their solution dynamically adjusts the migration order of valid pages during the course of garbage collection and fundamentally averts page waste caused by the page parity restriction. More specifically, their unit curtails the number of wasted pages by up to 91.4%, cuts back the number of garbage collection counts by up to 52.2%, and slashes average write response time by up to 77.8%.

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Grant Hits Ground Running as New Turner College Marketing Intern

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

Jung Exploring Influence of Confucianism on Luxury Brand Performance in China, Japan and South Korea

In a recent chat with Turner Business , Turner College professor of marketing Sungwoo Jung made the point that luxury brands are gaining the degree of influence in many developing countries that they enjoy now in developed countries. He has been pondering this issue as part of his international marketing research program, which typically focuses on advertising, pioneering advantages and multi-cultural analysis. Currently, Jung is concentrating his energies on a cross-cultural analysis of brand equity that highlights luxury brands’ performance. His research finds that China, Japan and South Korea have each seen an increase in market share for luxury brands in recent years. As Jung explained to Turner Business , “These three countries share a common philosophical background – Confucianism.” With that point in mind, Jung and his coauthors are currently engaged in an investigation of how Confucianism influences consumer behavior in these three Asian countries, and how that behavior im

Turner College Grad Publishes Academic Study on Corporate Culture and Strategy

Former Turner College student Tamara Todorova , now an associate professor of economics at American University in Bulgaria (AUB), recently published a study on corporate culture and strategy. Todorova earned an MBA from the Turner College in 1996 and then went on to earn a doctorate in international economics from the University of Economics - Varna in 2001. She has been on the faculty at AUB since August of 2000. Todorova's study, which appears in the current issue of the International Journal of Business Performance Management , investigates how corporate culture helps to economize on the transaction costs of internal organization. As she explains, the dimensions of corporate culture that assist in this task include increasing trust and reducing intrafirm opportunism. Todorova's study demonstrates that setting common goals and a common direction reduces the sizeable costs of internal organization. Tamara's prior research appears in Economics of Transition , International

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