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15th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing (PDP'07)
Multiple-Phase Collective I/O Technique for Improving Data Access Locality
Naples, Italy
February 07-February 09
ISBN: 0-7695-2784-1
David E. Singh, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain
Florin Isaila, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain
Alejandro Calderon, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain
Felix Garcia, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain
Jesus Carretero, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain
This paper presents Multiple-Phase Collective I/O, a novel collective I/O technique for distributed memory multi-processors. Multiple-Phase Collective I/O is a refinement of two-phase collective I/O technique. The communication phase is structured into several steps, which progressively increase the locality of the data to be written to a file system.

Besides the description ofMultiple-Phase Collective I/O, our paper addresses two additional objectives. First, we target to improve the efficiency of the Sulphur Transport Eurelian Model 2 (STEM-II) application. STEM-II is an air quality model that simulates transport, chemical transformations, emission and deposition processes in a unified framework. Due to the large amount of processed data, I/O becomes a critical factor for the application performance. Multiple-Phase Collective I/O, considerably enhances the performance of the I/O stage in particular and, consequently, of the whole application in general. Second objective consists of evaluating and comparing the performance of Multiple-Phase Collective I/O with that of other well known parallel I/O techniques.

Citation:
David E. Singh, Florin Isaila, Alejandro Calderon, Felix Garcia, Jesus Carretero, "Multiple-Phase Collective I/O Technique for Improving Data Access Locality," pdp, pp.534-542, 15th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing (PDP'07), 2007
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