The Need for a New I/O Model
Summary: Argues the classic two-level external-memory I/O model (fixed-size blocks, single-I/O cost) is ill-suited for SSDs because its assumptions of symmetric read/write costs and single outstanding I/O no longer hold. Calls for a new model capturing read/write asymmetry and device-level parallelism. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Tarikul Islam Papon (Boston University)
- 2. Manos Athanassoulis (Boston University)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{papon_cidr21,
address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
series = {{CIDR} '21},
title = {{The Need for a New I/O Model}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
author = {Papon, Tarikul Islam and Athanassoulis, Manos},
year = {2021}
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Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6,490 | CAVE: Concurrency-Aware Graph Processing on SSDs | 2024 | SIGMOD | 5.8643667e-05 |
| 7,760 | NOCAP: Near-Optimal Correlation-Aware Partitioning Joins | 2023 | SIGMOD | 5.5505651e-05 |
| 10,284 | ReStore: A Reinforcement Learning Approach for Data Migration in Multi-Tiered Storage | 2026 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
| 10,703 | ACE-in-Action: A Smart DBMS Bufferpool for SSDs | 2025 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
| 11,200 | High-Performance Query Processing with NVMe Arrays: Spilling without Killing Performance | 2024 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
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