Parallel I/O for Distributed Systems: Issues and Implementation (1996)
| Venue: | UPM -- DATSI |
| Citations: | 1 - 0 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Sunderam96paralleli/o,
author = {V. S. Sunderam and Steven A. Moyer},
title = {Parallel I/O for Distributed Systems: Issues and Implementation},
booktitle = {UPM -- DATSI},
year = {1996},
pages = {20--01}
}
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Abstract
Parallel and distributed computing have matured sufficiently for their adoption in production environments, consequently necessitating effective, robust, and efficient frameworks for input and output. A number of concurrent I/O initiatives have evolved in response to these needs, some system specific, others proposing an abstract framework and portable interface. These parallel and distributed I/O efforts focus either on characterizing file access patterns, language extensions, runtime libraries, or low level primitives. Important systems issues in each approach, technical details of various strategies, and their effect on performance are analyzed. The PIOUS system, a transport independent, scalable I/O framework for parallel and distributed systems is presented, and experiences with its use are reported. 1 Introduction It is well documented that the performance of many scientific and commercial applications, including the Grand Challenge problems [4], is often limited by the performa...
