DiskSim

DiskSim is a disk array simulator built at the Distributed Computing Multimedia Laboratory, Univ. of Texas at Austin. DiskSim is primarily meant for simulating continuous media workloads accessing disk arrays. Initial support for conventional workloads (i.e., text workloads) is available in the current version. This will be improved further in future releases.

DiskSim will run on most UNIX based platforms. You will need a C++ compiler (preferably g++) to compile DiskSim. You will also require csim, a simulation package available from Mesquite Software in order to compile DiskSim.

Currently, a beta version of DiskSim (version 0.6) is available. The documentation available with the source code is currently sketchy. I am working on it and hope to release a user manual in September.

Version 1.0 is slated for a Fall 97 release.

Please send your comments to shenoy@cs.utexas.edu