Block I/O Traces
Block I/O Traces typically include block level (e.g., at the logical volume manager, disk driver, etc. level) and block protocol (e.g., SCSI, ATA, Fibre Channel) traces.
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| Trace Name | Details | Related Tools | Year Recorded | Timespan | Record Count | File Size | Actions |
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| Systor '17 Traces |
Traces related to the paper
Understanding
storage traffic characteristics on enterprise virtual desktop
infrastructure by Chunghan Lee, Tatsuo Kumano, Tatsuma Matsuki,
Hiroshi Endo, Naoto Fukumoto, and
Mariko Sugawara, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., appearing in
Proceedings of the 10th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference
(SYSTOR '17)
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2016 | about 1 month | 4.19 Billion | 51.9 GB |
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| Slacker Traces |
These traces were collected in 2016 by running blktrace on the HelloBench
benchmark. These outputs are related to the paper Slacker: Fast Distribution with Lazy Docker
Containers
published in FAST 2016.
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2015 | 14 minutes | 3.37 MB |
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| Nexus 5 Smartphone Traces |
This is a collection of 25 traces consisting of 18 traces of singular smartphone applications and 7 traces of two smartphone applications running concurrently. All of these traces were run on a Nexus 5 smartphone. The study for which these traces were collected can be found in the paper "I/O Characteristics of Smartphone Applications and Their Implications for eMMC Design".
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This trace has no related tools yet. | 2014 | 6 months | 400 Thousand | 31.2 MB |
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View Historical Traces
WARNING: These traces are over 10 years old! They should not be used for modern research!
The following traces are free to download under the terms of the
SNIA Trace Data Files Download License.
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download traces.
For questions about downloading using a shell script,
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Using Batch Scripts.
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| FIU Traces | These traces can be decoded using blkparse. This utility is available on all standard Linux systems. | 2008-2009 | 3 months | 475 Million | 28.8 GB |
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| Microsoft Production Server Traces |
Because of the size of the traces, the BuildServer traces have been repackaged by IOTTA into eight zip files. The first seven files are divided into one for each of the first seven timestamped hours in the original traces. The last file contains traces of the remaining 18 traced hours, in which the activity was much lighter. All eight zip files contain the same Readme.* and Disclaimer files. They are designed so that if all are unpacked in the same directory, the original trace collection will be recreated.
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2007-2008 | 4 months | 1 Billion | 18.2 GB |
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| Microsoft Enterprise Traces | 2007-2008 | 4 months | 2.6 Billion | 25.1 GB |
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| MSR Cambridge Traces |
1-week block I/O traces of enterprise servers at Microsoft Research Cambridge. The citation for the MSRC traces can be found here.
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2007 | 8 days | 434 Million | 4.94 GB |
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| SPC OLTP Application Traces |
Two I/O traces from OLTP applications running at two large financial institutions. Due to access restrictions, these traces are hosted externaly.
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1999 | 1 day | 0 Bytes |
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| SPC Search Engine Traces |
Three I/O traces from a popular search engine. Due to access restrictions, these traces are hosted externally.
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1999 | 1 day | 0 Bytes |
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| Cello 1999 |
Disk traces taken from the cello server at HP labs in January through December of 1999.
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Software to process the SRT trace format can be downloaded from the tools section of this website. |
1999-2000 | 12 months | 30.7 GB |
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| Cello 1996 |
Disk traces take from the cello server at HP labs in September through November of 1996.
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Software to process the SRT trace format can be downloaded from the tools section of this website. |
1996 | 3 months | 4.94 GB |
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| Cello 1992 |
Disk traces taken from the cello server at HP labs in April through June of 1992.
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Software to process the SRT trace format can be downloaded from the tools section of this website. |
1992 | 2 months | 603 MB |
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| HP LAJW |
OS version: HP-UX A.08.00 U
Machine type: 9000/845
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Software to process the SRT trace format can be downloaded from the tools section of this website. |
1992 | 2 months | 8.08 MB |
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| Cello 1991 |
Disk traces taken from the cello server at HP labs in March through June of 1991.
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Software to process the SRT trace format can be downloaded from the tools section of this website. |
1991 | 3 months | 357 MB |
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