Low-level interfaces for high-level parallel I/O (1995) [36 citations — 11 self]
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Nieuwejaar95low-levelinterfaces,author = {Nils Nieuwejaar and David Kotz},
title = {Low-level interfaces for high-level parallel I/O},
booktitle = {Input/Output in Parallel and Distributed Computer Systems, volume 362 of The Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, chapter 9},
year = {1995},
pages = {47--62},
publisher = {Kluwer Academic Publishers}
}
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Abstract:
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 non-consecutive 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 nestedbatched I/O requests. We show how these extensions can be used to express common access patterns. 1
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