Influence of Long-Term Dependences on Hard Drives Performance during Human Computer Interaction

• Authors: D. Strzałka
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Today, computer systems become one of the most important systems in technology and our life. They have a plenty of possible applications but most of them can be described as a transformation of (electrical) energy into useful work = calculations. This process is not so simple as it seems to be because the structure of computers hardware is very complicated and processed tasks are also very complex. Because the expectations of computer users are very high, a lot of computer resources are used only for operating systems normal work. Some existing solutions, especially in the memory system, guarantee that computer systems have acceptable performance but this parameter depends on many important system features. In this paper we will focus on one parameter, namely average disk time s/ transfer, in order to show the complex behavior of this memory system part during man-computer interaction. This is one of the most important counters in computer systems that works under Windows family operating systems and describes measurement related to hard drive based on the complete roundtrip time of any request.

Keywords

EN

89.20.Ff; 89.20.Kk; 89.70.-a; 89.75.-k; 05.20.-y

Discipline

• 89.20.Ff: Computer science and technology
• 89.75.-k: Complex systems(for complex chemical systems, see 82.40.Qt; for biological complexity, see 87.18.-h)
• 05.20.-y: Classical statistical mechanics
• 89.20.Kk: Engineering(for electrochemical engineering, see 82.47.Wx; for biomedical engineering, see 87.85.-d; for reservoir engineering in geothermal energy, see 88.10.G-; for nuclear engineering, see 28.00.00)
• 89.70.-a: Information and communication theory(for telecommunications, see 84.40.Ua; for optical communications, see 42.79.Sz; for quantum information, see 03.67.-a; for applications to neuroscience, see 87.19.lo)

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 129
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 1064-1070

Dates

published

2016-05

Contributors

author

D. Strzałka

• Rzeszów University of Technology, Al. Powstańców Warszawy 12, 35-959 Rzeszów, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.129.1064