@Article{patterson:tip,
  author = {R. Hugo Patterson and Garth A. Gibson and M. Satyanarayanan},
  title = {A Status Report on Research in Transparent Informed Prefetching},
  journal = {ACM Operating Systems Review},
  year = {1993},
  month = {April},
  volume = {27},
  number = {2},
  pages = {21--34},
  later = {patterson:informed},
  URL = {http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/pdl/ftp/TIP/OSRev.ps},
  keywords = {file system, prefetching, operating system, pario-bib},
  abstract = {This paper focuses on extending the power of caching and
  prefetching to reduce file read latencies by exploiting application level
  hints about future I/O accesses. We argue that systems that disclose
  high-level knowledge can transfer optimization information across module
  boundaries in a manner consistent with sound software engineering principles.
  Such Transparent Informed Prefetching (TIP) systems provide a technique for
  converting the high through put of new technologies such as disk arrays and
  log-structured file systems into low latency for applications. Our
  preliminary experiments show that even without a high-throughput I/O sub
  system TIP yields reduced execution time of up to 30% for applications
  obtaining data from a remote file server and up to 13% for applications
  obtaining data from a single local disk. These experiments indicate that
  greater performance benefits will be available when TIP is integrated with
  low level resource management policies and highly parallel I/O subsystems
  such as disk arrays.},
  comment = {Not much new over previous TIP papers, but does have newer
  numbers. See patterson:tip1. Also appears in DAGS'93 (patterson:tip2).
  Previously appeared as TR CMU-CS-93-1.}
}