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The emerging interlaced magnetic recording (IMR) technology achieves a higher areal density for hard disk drive (HDD) over the conventional magnetic recording (CMR) technology. Unfortunately, there has been no related disk simulator and product available to the public. So, in this work, we implement the first public IMR disk simulator, called IMRSim, simulating the interlaced tracks and implementing many state-of-the-art data placement strategies. IMRSim is built on the actual CMR-based HDD to precisely simulate the I/O performance of IMR drives. We release IMRSim as an open-source IMR disk simulation tool and hope to provide a platform for related research.
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Zeng, Z., Chen, X., Yang, L.T., Cui, J. (2022). IMRSim: A Disk Simulator for Interlaced Magnetic Recording Technology. In: Liu, S., Wei, X. (eds) Network and Parallel Computing. NPC 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13615. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21395-3_25
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