| J. Huber, C. Elford, D. Reed, A. Chien, D. Blumenthal, PPFS: A High Performance Portable File System. In Proc. ICS, 1995. |
....of the file is hidden from the application. Galley offers a particular interface which allows simple strided, nested strided and nested batched operations. No views on the file are possible, the programmer must compute the indices of the accesses. The Portable Parallel File System (PPFS) [HE95] allows applications to control caching, pre fetching, data distribution and file sharing policies. The files are divided into variable size records, called segments. Each segment is managed by a single I O server. It is implemented as an user level library portable across several parallel file ....
James V. Huber, Cristopher L. Elford, Daniel A. Reed, Andrew A. Chien, David S. Blumenthal, PPFS: A High Performance Portable File System. In Proceedings of of the 9th ACM International Conference on Supercomputing, Barcelona 1995.
....algorithms in a parallel file system. 1 Introduction The discrepancy between processor and memory speed on one side, and disks, on the other side, has been identified as a major drawback for applications with intensive I O activity. For addressing this problem, some parallel file systems [5, 6, 4, 3, 13, 2] and libraries [15, 11] have employed mechanisms such as striping a file on several independent disks and allowing parallel file access. Another main problems in parallel I O is efficiently handling byte granularity, non contiguous I O. For instance, parallel scientific applications often access ....
J. Huber, C. Elford, D. Reed, A. Chien, D. Blumenthal, PPFS: A High Performance Portable File System. In Proc. ICS, 1995.
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J. Huber, C. Elford, D. Reed, A. Chien, D. Blumenthal, PPFS: A High Performance Portable File System. In Proc. ICS, 1995.
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J. Huber, C. Elford, D. Reed, A. Chien, and D. Blumenthal. Ppfs: A high performance portable file system. In Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Conference on Supercomputing, 1995.
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James V. Huber, Cristopher L. Elford, Daniel A. Reed, Andrew A. Chien, David S. Blumenthal, PPFS: A High Performance Portable File System. In Proceedings of of the 9th ACM International Conference on Supercomputing, Barcelona 1995.
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