Performance Evaluation of the PVFS2 Architecture Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:4254475, abstract = {As the complexity of parallel file systems' software stacks increases it gets harder to reveal the reasons for performance bottlenecks in these software layers. This paper introduces a method which eliminates the influence of the physical storage on performance analysis in order to find these bottlenecks. Also, the influence of the hardware components on the performance is modeled to estimate the maximum achievable performance of a parallel file system. The paper focusses on the Parallel Virtual File System 2 (PVFS2) and shows results for the functionality file creation, small contiguous I/O requests and large contiguous I/O requests.}, address = {Washington, DC, USA}, author = {Kunkel, Julian M. and Ludwig, Thomas}, booktitle = {PDP '07: Proceedings of the 15th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing}, citeulike-article-id = {4254475}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1263669}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PDP.2007.65}, doi = {10.1109/PDP.2007.65}, isbn = {0-7695-2784-1}, keywords = {filesystem, parallel, pvfs}, pages = {509--516}, posted-at = {2009-04-01 22:02:24}, priority = {2}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, title = {Performance Evaluation of the PVFS2 Architecture}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PDP.2007.65}, year = {2007} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:4254475 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4254475 N2 - As the complexity of parallel file systems' software stacks increases it gets harder to reveal the reasons for performance bottlenecks in these software layers. This paper introduces a method which eliminates the influence of the physical storage on performance analysis in order to find these bottlenecks. Also, the influence of the hardware components on the performance is modeled to estimate the maximum achievable performance of a parallel file system. The paper focusses on the Parallel Virtual File System 2 (PVFS2) and shows results for the functionality file creation, small contiguous I/O requests and large contiguous I/O requests. SN - 0-7695-2784-1 AD - Washington, DC, USA EP - 516 TI - Performance Evaluation of the PVFS2 Architecture PB - IEEE Computer Society T2 - PDP '07: Proceedings of the 15th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing SP - 509 KW - filesystem KW - parallel KW - pvfs AU - Kunkel, Julian AU - Ludwig, Thomas PY - 2007/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PDP.2007.65 ER -