Data layout optimization for petascale file systems

  • Authors:
  • Xian-He Sun;Yong Chen;Yanlong Yin

  • Affiliations:
  • Illinois Institute of Technology;Illinois Institute of Technology;Illinois Institute of Technology

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 4th Annual Workshop on Petascale Data Storage
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In this study, the authors propose a simple performance model to promote a better integration between the parallel I/O middleware layer and parallel file systems. They show that application-specific data layout optimization can improve overall data access delay considerably for many applications. Implementation results under MPI-IO middleware and PVFS2 file system confirm the correctness and effectiveness of their approach, and demonstrate the potential of data layout optimization in petascale data storage.