Title :
The Development of a Utility of Assessing the Performance Impact of Shared/Distributed File Systems and Database Interactions in High-Performance Simulations
Author :
Watkins, Andrew ; Schumeyer, Richard
Author_Institution :
Mississippi State Univ.
Abstract :
We present the development of a tool for analyzing the interactions between parallel/distributed file systems and databases in a Linux cluster environment. We begin with an overview of existing file system and database technology. We then discuss the actual design of the tool. A sample set of results on a small Linux cluster using NFS and Postgres are presented and analyzed by way of a demonstration and discussion of how this utility may be used for performance assessment
Keywords :
digital simulation; distributed databases; network operating systems; program diagnostics; software performance evaluation; workstation clusters; Linux cluster environment; database interactions; distributed file systems; file system; high-performance simulation; shared file systems; Analytical models; Computational modeling; Distributed databases; File systems; Frequency; Linux; Measurement; Monitoring; Open source software; Performance analysis;
Conference_Titel :
HPCMP Users Group Conference, 2006
Conference_Location :
Denver, CO
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2797-3
DOI :
10.1109/HPCMP-UGC.2006.70
