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Low-level interfaces for high-level parallel i/o
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Nieuwejaar Sr., Nils Kotz, David |
| Copyright Year | 1995 |
| Description | As the I/O needs of parallel scientific applications increase, file systems for multiprocessors are being designed to provide applications with parallel access to multiple disks. Many parallel file systems present applications with a conventional Unix-like interface that allows the application to access multiple disks transparently. By tracing all the activity of a parallel file system in a production, scientific computing environment, we show that many applications exhibit highly regular, but nonconsecutive I/O access patterns. Since the conventional interface does not provide an efficient method of describing these patterns, we present three extensions to the interface that support strided, nested-strided, and nested-batched I/O requests. We show how these extensions can be used to express common access patterns. |
| File Size | 874874 |
| Page Count | 20 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19960001491 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t7jq5wv6p |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1995-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Data Transfer Computers Parallel Programming Parallel Computers Data Storage Data Structures Multiprocessing Computers Computer Storage Devices Input/output Routines Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports ServerĀ (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |