PASSION Runtime Library for parallel I/O

Author

Thakur, Rajeev ; Bordawekar, Rajesh ; Choudhary, Alok ; Ponnusamy, Ravi ; Singh, Tarvinder

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Syracuse Univ., NY, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

12-14 Oct 1994

Firstpage

119

Lastpage

128

Abstract

We are developing a compiler and runtime support system called PASSION: Parallel and Scalable Software for Input-Output. PASSION provides software support for I/O intensive out-of-core loosely synchronous problems. This paper gives an overview of the PASSION Runtime Library and describes two of the optimizations incorporated in it, namely data prefetching and data sieving. Performance improvements provided by these optimizations on the Intel Touchstone Delta are discussed together with an out-of-core median filtering application

Keywords

input-output programs; optimisation; parallel programming; program compilers; software libraries; Intel Touchstone Delta; PASSION Runtime Library; Parallel and Scalable Software for Input-Output; compiler; data prefetching; data sieving; loosely synchronous problems; median filtering application; optimizations; parallel I/O; parallel input output; runtime support system; Concurrent computing; Databases; Filtering; High performance computing; Information retrieval; Large-scale systems; Operating systems; Parallel architectures; Prefetching; Runtime library;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Scalable Parallel Libraries Conference, 1994., Proceedings of the 1994

Conference_Location

Mississippi State, MS

Print_ISBN

0-8186-6895-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SPLC.1994.376997

Filename

376997