Title :
User-controllable parallel I/O for scientific applications
Author :
Lee, Jang Sun ; Song, Youngki
Author_Institution :
Labs. of Comput. & Software Technol., ETRI, Daejon, South Korea
Abstract :
We propose user controllable I/O operations for scientific applications in parallel computing environments and explore the effects of them with some synthetic access patterns. The operations allow users to present numerous access patterns collectively with a minimum number of I/O requests. This enables systems to aggregate bandwidth of parallel disks, optimize disk head movements, and then increase I/O performance
Keywords :
input-output programs; natural sciences computing; parallel programming; user interfaces; I/O performance; I/O requests; bandwidth aggregation; disk head movements; parallel computing environments; parallel disks; scientific applications; synthetic access patterns; user controllable I/O operations; user controllable parallel I/O; Aggregates; Application software; Bandwidth; Concurrent computing; Control systems; Data engineering; Distributed computing; Parallel processing; Shape control; Sun;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel and Distributed Systems, 1998. Proceedings. 1998 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Tainan
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8603-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICPADS.1998.741169
