AHPIOS: An MPI-Based Ad Hoc Parallel I/O System Export

@article{citeulike:6060762, abstract = {This paper presents the design and implementation of a portable ad-hoc parallel I/O system (AHPIOS). AHPIOS virtualizes on-demand available distributed storage resources and allows the files to be striped over several storage devices. Additionally, the design unifies the configuration of the MPI-IO library and the AHPIOS data servers. By a strong integration of the application, MPI-IO library and file system, a significant performance improvement can be achieved. The experimental section shows that the full MPI-IO integrated AHPIOS implementation of file access operations outperforms the existing MPI-IO implementation by as much as 495\% for file writes and 522\% for file reads.}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, author = {Isaila, Florin and Blas, Javier G. and Carretero, Jesus and Liao, Wei K. and Choudhary, Alok}, citeulike-article-id = {6060762}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ICPADS.2008.50}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICPADS.2008.50}, doi = {10.1109/ICPADS.2008.50}, issn = {1521-9097}, journal = {Parallel and Distributed Systems, International Conference on}, keywords = {supercomputing}, pages = {253--260}, posted-at = {2009-11-03 17:15:16}, priority = {2}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, title = {AHPIOS: An MPI-Based Ad Hoc Parallel I/O System}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICPADS.2008.50}, volume = {0}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:6060762 L3 - citeulike-article-id:6060762 N2 - This paper presents the design and implementation of a portable ad-hoc parallel I/O system (AHPIOS). AHPIOS virtualizes on-demand available distributed storage resources and allows the files to be striped over several storage devices. Additionally, the design unifies the configuration of the MPI-IO library and the AHPIOS data servers. By a strong integration of the application, MPI-IO library and file system, a significant performance improvement can be achieved. The experimental section shows that the full MPI-IO integrated AHPIOS implementation of file access operations outperforms the existing MPI-IO implementation by as much as 495% for file writes and 522% for file reads. JF - Parallel and Distributed Systems, International Conference on SN - 1521-9097 AD - Los Alamitos, CA, USA EP - 260 TI - AHPIOS: An MPI-Based Ad Hoc Parallel I/O System PB - IEEE Computer Society VL - 0 SP - 253 KW - supercomputing AU - Isaila, Florin AU - Blas, Javier AU - Carretero, Jesus AU - Liao, Wei AU - Choudhary, Alok PY - 2008/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICPADS.2008.50 ER -