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Clive Scott Oldfield
Researcher at IBM
Publications - 3
Citations - 125
Clive Scott Oldfield is an academic researcher from IBM. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cache pollution & Cache. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 3 publications receiving 125 citations.
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Scatter-gather in data processing system
TL;DR: In this article, a technique for transferring data between system memory which is arranged in pages and an attached storage system is described, which is useful with storage systems that do not support scatter-gather and comprises determining for each data transfer the identity of any requested sector which lies completely within a physical page; and for those sectors which lie within a physically-aligned pages, transferring the sectors directly between secondary storage and memory by DMA.
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System and method for managing data in a cache system for a disk array
TL;DR: In this paper, a cache system is described which is adapted for staging data between host memory and a disk array comprising a plurality of disk storage devices plus associated controller unit, data being storable across the disks of the array in the form of strides, each stride comprising a multi-sector ''stripe'' of data on each of two or more devices.
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Cache system for disk array
TL;DR: In this article, a cache system is described which is adapted for staging data between host memory and a disk array comprising a plurality of disk storage devices plus associated controller unit, data being storable across the disks of the array in the form of strides.