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PDPTA
2000
13 years 5 months ago
Performance Analysis of a Cluster File System
Design of cluster file system is very important for building a general-purpose cluster with commodity components. To provide scalable high I/O performance needed in the scientific...
Cong Du, Zhiwei Xu
FAST
2010
13 years 6 months ago
I/O Deduplication: Utilizing Content Similarity to Improve I/O Performance
Duplication of data in storage systems is becoming increasingly common. We introduce I/O Deduplication, a storage optimization that utilizes content similarity for improving I/O p...
Ricardo Koller, Raju Rangaswami
ICS
2010
Tsinghua U.
13 years 7 months ago
InterferenceRemoval: removing interference of disk access for MPI programs through data replication
As the number of I/O-intensive MPI programs becomes increasingly large, many efforts have been made to improve I/O performance, on both software and architecture sides. On the sof...
Xuechen Zhang, Song Jiang
CLUSTER
2004
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
RFS: efficient and flexible remote file access for MPI-IO
Scientific applications often need to access remote file systems. Because of slow networks and large data size, however, remote I/O can become an even more serious performance bot...
Jonghyun Lee, Robert B. Ross, Rajeev Thakur, Xiaos...
ICPP
1998
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Performance Implications of Architectural and Software Techniques on I/O-Intensive Applications
Many large scale applications, have significant I/O requirements as well as computational and memory requirements. Unfortunately, limited number of I/O nodes provided by the conte...
Meenakshi A. Kandaswamy, Mahmut T. Kandemir, Alok ...
EUROPAR
1999
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
I/O-Conscious Tiling for Disk-Resident Data Sets
This paper describes a tiling technique that can be used by application programmers and optimizing compilers to obtain I/O-efficient versions of regular scientific loop nests. Du...
Mahmut T. Kandemir, Alok N. Choudhary, J. Ramanuja...
CLUSTER
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
I/O Analysis and Optimization for an AMR Cosmology Application
In this paper, we investigate the data access patterns and file I/O behaviors of a production cosmology application that uses the adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) technique for it...
Jianwei Li, Wei-keng Liao, Alok N. Choudhary, Vale...
CCGRID
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Noncontiguous I/O Accesses Through MPI-IO
I/O performance remains a weakness of parallel computing systems today. While this weakness is partly attributed to rapid advances in other system components, I/O interfaces avail...
Avery Ching, Alok N. Choudhary, Kenin Coloma, Wei-...
HIPC
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Autonomic Storage System Based on Automatic Learning
In this paper, we present a system capable of improving the I/O performance in an automatic way. This system is able to learn the behavior of the applications running on top and ...
Francisco Hidrobo, Toni Cortes
HPCC
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Throttling I/O Streams to Accelerate File-IO Performance
To increase the scale and performance of scientific applications, scientists commonly distribute computation over multiple processors. Often without realizing it, file I/O is pa...
Seetharami R. Seelam, Andre Kerstens, Patricia J. ...