@inproceedings {conf/hpcn/VakaliPP00, title = {A New Approach to the Design of High Performance Multiple Disk Subsystems: Dynamic Load Balancing Schemes}, booktitle = {HPCN Europe}, series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}, volume = {1823}, year = {2000}, pages = {610-613}, publisher = {Springer}, organization = {Springer}, abstract = {The performance of storage subsystems has not followed therapid improvements in processors technology, despite the increased capacityand density in storage medium. Here, we introduce a new modelbased on the idea of enhancing the I/O subsystem controller capabilitiesby dynamic load balancing on a storage subsystem of multiple disk drives.The request servicing is modified such that each request is directed to themost appropriate disk drive towards servicing performance improvement.The redirection is performed by a proposed algorithm which considersthe disk drive queues and the disk drives {\^a}{\texteuro}{\'s}popularity{\^a}{\texteuro}{\v t}. The proposed requestservicing has been simulated and the load balancing approach hasbeen shown quite effective as compared to conventional request servicing.}, isbn = {3-540-67553-1}, author = {Athena Vakali and Papadimitriou, Georgios I. and Pomportsis, Andreas S.}, editor = {Bubak, Marian and Afsarmanesh, Hamideh and Williams, Roy and Hertzberger, Louis O.} }