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Optimum Head Separation in a Disk System with Two Read/Write Heads
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Volume 31 ,  Issue 4  (October 1984) table of contents
Pages: 826 - 838  
Year of Publication: 1984
ISSN:0004-5411
Authors
A. R. Calderbank
E. G. Coffman, Jr.
L. Flatto
Publisher
ACM  New York, NY, USA
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CALDERBANK, A. R., COFFMAN, E. G., JR,, AND FLATTO, L. Sequencing problems in two-server systems. Math. Oper. Res., (to appear).
 
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Handbook of Mathemat~calFunctions, Applied Mathematics Series 55. National Bureau of Standards, Washington, D.C., 1972 (10th printing).
 
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HOFRI, M. Should the two-headed disk be greedy? Inf. Proc Lett 16 (1983), 83-86.
 
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PAGE, I. P., AND W~K)D, R.T. Empirical analysis of a moving head disc model wath two heads separated by a fixed number of tracks. Comput Z 24 (1981), 339-341.

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A. R. Calderbank , E. G. Coffman, Jr. , Leopold Flatto, Optimal directory placement on disk storage devices, Journal of the ACM (JACM), v.35 n.2, p.433-446, April 1988
 
A. R. Calderbank , E. G. Coffman, Jr. , L. Flatto, A Note Extending the Analysis of Two-Head Disk Systems to More General Seek-Time Characteristics, IEEE Transactions on Computers, v.38 n.11, p.1584-1586, November 1989
 
Clement H. C. Leung , K. S. Wong, File processing efficiency on the content addressable file store, Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Very Large Data Bases, p.282-291, August 21-23, 1985, Stockholm, Sweden
Richard P. King, Disk arm movement in anticipation of future requests, ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS), v.8 n.3, p.214-229, Aug. 1990
Y. Manolopoulos , J. G. Kollias, Performance of a two-headed disk system when serving database queries under the scan policy, ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), v.14 n.3, p.425-442, Sept. 1989
 
Eitan Bachmat , Tao Kai Lam, On the effect of a configuration choice on the performance of a mirrored storage system, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, v.65 n.3, p.382-395, March 2005

INDEX TERMS

Classification:
  B. Hardware
  B.3 MEMORY STRUCTURES
      B.3.2 Design Styles
          Subjects: Mass storage (e.g., magnetic, optical, RAID)
      B.3.3 Performance Analysis and Design Aids**
          Subjects: Formal models**
  B.4 INPUT/OUTPUT AND DATA COMMUNICATIONS
      B.4.2 Input/Output Devices
          Subjects: Channels and controllers


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Algorithms, Performance, Theory, Verification

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