Characterization of Emerging or Important Real Devices
Published in ISPASS'26
This is another theme of research in the past few years and is an important track to continue as well.
Research is meaningful when it becomes practical, and an important step for that is to know the behavior, benefits and problems of real devices. To achieve such insight, characterization is the main approach. Placing the device in a real (usually enterprise) computer system and running various experiments and benchmarks to extract important insight. Sometimes field knowledge and feedback from industry also provides additional knowledge and depth to these types of research. A major example of our publication with this mindset is our ISPASS’26, in which we analyze the behavior of almost 50 enterprise HDDs of the same model (but with different ages), and extract important insights on how aging affects the performance of enterprise HDDs.
