@InProceedings{cortes:hraid,
  author = {Toni Cortes and Jes\'us Labarta},
  title = {{HRaid}: A Flexible Storage-system Simulator},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and
  Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications},
  year = {1999},
  month = {June},
  pages = {772--778},
  publisher = {CSREA Press},
  URL = {ftp://ftp.ac.upc.es/pub/reports/DAC/1999/UPC-DAC-1999-14.ps.Z},
  keywords = {simulation, RAID, disk array, storage system, heterogeneous
  system, parallel I/O, pario-bib},
  abstract = {Clusters of workstations are becoming a quite popular platform to
  run high-performance applications. This fact has stressed the need of
  high-performance storage systems for this kind of environments. In order to
  design such systems, we need adequate tools, which should be flexible enough
  to model a cluster of workstations. Currently available simulators do not
  allow heterogeneity (several kind of disks), hierarchies or resource sharing
  (among others), which are quite common in clusters. To fill this gap, we have
  designed and implemented HRaid, which is a very flexible and easy to use
  storage-system simulator. In this paper, we present this simulator, its main
  abstractions and some simple examples of how it can be used.}
}