Third IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid'03) Noncontiguous I/O Accesses Through MPI-IO Tokyo, Japan May 12-May 15 ISBN: 0-7695-1919-9
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 available to programmers and the I/O methods supported by file systems have traditionally not matched efficiently with the types of I/O operations that scientific applications perform, particularly noncontiguous accesses. The MPI-IO interface allows for rich descriptions of the I/O patterns desired for scientific applications and implementations such as ROMIO have taken advantage of this ability while remaining limited by underlying file system methods.A method of noncontiguous data access, list I/O, was recently implemented in the Parallel Virtual File System (PVFS). We implement support for this interface in the ROMIO MPI-IO implementation. Through a suite of non-contiguous I/O tests we compared ROMIO list I/O to current methods of ROMIO noncontiguous access and found that the list I/O interface provides performance benefits in many noncontiguous cases.
Citation:
Avery Ching, Alok Choudhary, Kenin Coloma, Wei-keng Liao, Robert Ross, William Gropp, "Noncontiguous I/O Accesses Through MPI-IO," ccgrid, pp.104, Third IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid'03), 2003 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||