An introduction to disk drive modeling

... An introduction to disk drivemodelingChris Ruemmler and John WilkesHewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CAMuch research in I/O systems is based on disk drive simulation models, ... bus. Thecontroller manages the storage and retrieval of data to and from the mechanism and performs mappingsbetween incoming logical addresses and the physical disk sectors that store the information.Below, ... buses. BruceWorthington and Greg Ganger at the University of Michigan took this approach and managed to fine-tunethe controller-overhead and bus-transfer components of a model similar to ours. They...

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... capabilities to keep up with demand. These rapid developments in the network industry lead to a large, complex landscape. The network designer and developer wants (and needs) to satisfy the demands ... available to the network engineer that can assist in answering these questions, including analysis, prototype implementation and empirical testing, trial fi eld deployments, and modeling and simulation ... employed, as it leads to unpredict-ability in execution. A simulation can be made to act in a pseudo - random manner through the employment of random number generators to represent random events....

... Addison-WesleyManipulatorsA manipulator is a function called in a nontraditional wayManipulators in turn call member functionsManipulators may or may not have argumentsUsed after the insertion operator ... be thought of as the file it is connected to Can have its value changedChanging a stream value means disconnecting from one file and connecting to anotherSlide 6- 12Copyright © 2007 Pearson ... Use Files?Files allow you to store data permanently!Data output to a file lasts after the program ends An input file can be used over and overNo typing of data again and again for testingCreate...

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... 20042000(netLibrary)©ContentsPrefacepagexi 1Introduction1 Empiricalpsychologyandphilosophicalanalysis2Metaphysicsandthephilosophyofmind3Abriefguidetotherestofthisbook62Minds,bodiesandpeople8Cartesiandualism9Theconceivabilityargument11Thedivisibilityargument13Non-Cartesiandualism15Arepersonssimplesubstances?18Conceptualobjectionstodualisticinteraction21Empiricalobjectionstodualisticinteraction24Thecausalclosureargument26Objectionstothecausalclosureargument29Otherargumentsforandagainstphysicalism32Conclusions363Mentalstates39Propositionalattitudestates40Behaviourismanditsproblems41Functionalism44Functionalismandpsychophysicalidentitytheories48Theproblemofconsciousness51Qualiaandtheinvertedspectrumargument53Somepossibleresponsestotheinvertedspectrumargument55Theabsentqualiaargumentandtwonotionsofconsciousness59Eliminativematerialismand‘folkpsychology’61Someresponsestoeliminativematerialism64Conclusions66viiContentsviii4Mentalcontent69Propositions70Thecausalrelevanceofcontent74Theindividuationofcontent79Externalisminthephilosophyofmind82Broadversusnarrowcontent84Content,representationandcausality89Misrepresentationandnormality92Theteleologicalapproachtorepresentation95Objectionstoateleologicalaccountofmentalcontent99Conclusions1005Sensationandappearance102Appearanceandreality103Sense-datumtheoriesandtheargumentfromillusion107Otherargumentsforsense-data110Objectionstosense-datumtheories112Theadverbialtheoryofsensation114Theadverbialtheoryandsense-data116Primaryandsecondaryqualities119Sense-datumtheoriesandtheprimary/secondarydistinction121Anadverbialversionoftheprimary/secondarydistinction125Docolour-propertiesreallyexist?126Conclusions1286Perception130Perceptualexperienceandperceptualcontent131Perceptualcontent,appearanceandqualia135Perceptionandcausation137Objectionstocausaltheoriesofperception143Thedisjunctivetheoryofperception145Thecomputationalandecologicalapproachestoperception149Consciousness,experienceand‘blindsight’155Conclusions1587Thoughtandlanguage160Modesofmentalrepresentation162The‘languageofthought’hypothesis164Analogueversusdigitalrepresentation167Imaginationandmentalimagery169Thoughtandcommunication175Doanimalsthink?178Naturallanguageandconceptualschemes183Contents ... that what metaphysicians aspire to achieve is an imposs-ible dream. They claim that it is an illusion to suppose thathuman beings can formulate and justify an undistorted pic-ture of the fundamental ... but only to a person himself or herself. Oneis inclined to urge that it is I who think and feel, not my brainor body, even if I need to have a brain and body in order to An introduction to the...