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Improved Multimedia Server I/O Subsystems
Västerås, Sweden August 25-August 27
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/EURMIC.1998.70806524 th. EUROMICRO Conference Volume 2 ...
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Michael Weeks, University of Teesside
Hadj Batatia, University of Teesside
Reza Sotudeh, University of Teesside
The main function of a continuous media server is to concurrently stream data from storage to multiple clients over a network. The resulting streams will congest the host CPU bus, reducing access to the system?s main memory, which degrades CPU performance. The purpose of this paper is to investigate ways of improving I/O subsystems of continuous media servers. Several improved I/O subsystem architectures are presented and their performances evaluated. The proposed architectures use an existing device, namely the Intel i960RP? processor. The objective of using an I/O processor is to move the stream and its control from the host processor and the main memory. The ultimate aim is to identify the requirements for an integrated I/O subsystem for a high performance scalable media-on-demand server.
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Michael Weeks, Hadj Batatia, Reza Sotudeh, "Improved Multimedia Server I/O Subsystems," euromicro, vol. 2, pp.20514, 24 th. EUROMICRO Conference Volume 2 (EUROMICRO'98), 1998
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