The network architecture of the Connection Machine CM-5 (extended abstract)
SPAA '92 Proceedings of the fourth annual ACM symposium on Parallel algorithms and architectures
An experimental performance evaluation of Touchstone Delta Concurrent File System
ICS '93 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Supercomputing
Communication and computation performance of the CM-5
Proceedings of the 1993 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
Design and Evaluation of primitives for Parallel I/O
Proceedings of the 1993 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
pC++/streams: a library for I/O on complex distributed data sources
PPOPP '95 Proceedings of the fifth ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Principles and practice of parallel programming
Input/output characteristics of scalable parallel applications
Supercomputing '95 Proceedings of the 1995 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
PPFS: a high performance portable parallel file system
ICS '95 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Supercomputing
Performance of the gallery parallel file system
Proceedings of the fourth workshop on I/O in parallel and distributed systems: part of the federated computing research conference
File-Access Characteristics of Parallel Scientific Workloads
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
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Assessing the performance and software interactions of emerging parallel input/output systems is a critical first step in input/output software tuning. Moreover, understanding the system response to well-understood, synthetic input/output patterns is itself a prelude to analysis of more complex application input/output patterns. We have conducted a series of experiments to measure the performance of the CM-5's new Scalable Disk Array (SDA) and Scalable Parallel File System (SFS) using the file system interfaces provided by the data parallel CM Fortran and message passing CMMD programming models. The results of these experiments suggest that the CM-5's parallel input/output systems is an improvement over its predecessor, the CM-2 Data Vault. However, network bandwidth can be a bottleneck for the data reordering phase of input/output operations.