Expanding the potential for disk-directed I/O

As parallel computers are increasingly used to run scientific applications with large data sets, and as processor speeds continue to increase, it becomes more important to provide fast, effective parallel file systems for data storage and for temporary files. In an earlier work we demonstrated that...

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Published inProceedings.Seventh IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing pp. 490 - 495
Main Author Kotz, D.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 1995
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Application software
Computer science
Concurrent computing
Educational institutions
File systems
Filtering
Filters
Hardware
Libraries
Memory
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Summary:As parallel computers are increasingly used to run scientific applications with large data sets, and as processor speeds continue to increase, it becomes more important to provide fast, effective parallel file systems for data storage and for temporary files. In an earlier work we demonstrated that a technique we call disk-directed I/O has the potential to provide consistent high performance for large, collective, structured I/O requests. In this paper we expand on this potential by demonstrating the ability of a disk-directed I/O system to read irregular subsets of data from a file, and to filter and distribute incoming data according to data-dependent functions.
ISBN:9780818671951
0818671955
ISSN:1063-6374
DOI:10.1109/SPDP.1995.530723