PDS/PIO: lightweight libraries for collective parallel I/O

  • Authors:
  • Judy Sturtevant;Mark Christon;Philip D. Heermann;Pang-Chieh Chen

  • Affiliations:
  • Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM;Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM;Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM;-

  • Venue:
  • SC '98 Proceedings of the 1998 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

PDS/PIO is a lightweight, parallel interface designed to support efficient transfers of massive, grid-based, simulation data among memory, disk, and tape subsystems. The higher-level PDS (Parallel Data Set) interface manages data with tensor and unstructured grid abstractions, while the lower-level PIO (Parallel Input/Output) interface accesses data arrays with arbitrary permutation, and provides communication and collective I/O operations. Higher-level data abstraction for finite element applications is provided by PXI (Parallel Exodus Interface), which supports, in parallel, functionality of Exodus II, a finite element data model developed at Sandia National Laboratories. The entire interface is implemented in C with Fortran-callable PDS and PXI wrappers.