Title :
Design and evaluation of a high performance file system for message passing parallel computers
Author :
Nagaraj, U. ; Shukla, U.S. ; Paulraj, A.
Author_Institution :
Centre for Dev. of Adv. Comput., Bangalore, India
fDate :
30 Apr-2 May 1991
Abstract :
The rapid increase in compute and communication performance of local memory message passing multicomputer systems places matching demand on disk I/O bandwidth. While high performance disk drives can provide some improvements in disk bandwidth, a cost effective approach suggests exploring parallel disk arrays using low cost disk units. The authors study the design and performance issues of such a parallel disk array file system and provide simulation results for its performance prediction
Keywords :
file organisation; parallel programming; disk I/O bandwidth; local memory message passing multicomputer systems; message passing parallel computers; parallel disk array file system; performance prediction; Bandwidth; Computer architecture; Concurrent computing; Costs; File systems; High performance computing; Message passing; Microprocessors; Network topology; Routing;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel Processing Symposium, 1991. Proceedings., Fifth International
Conference_Location :
Anaheim, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-9167-0
DOI :
10.1109/IPPS.1991.153835
