Measurements of a distributed file system
SOSP '91 Proceedings of the thirteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Input/output behavior of supercomputing applications
Proceedings of the 1991 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
Performance measurement of the concurrent file system of the Intel iPSC/2 hypercube
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing - Special issue on parallel I/O systems
Caching the writeback policies in parallel file systems
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing - Special issue on parallel I/O systems
Architectural requirements of parallel scientific applications with explicit communication
ISCA '93 Proceedings of the 20th annual international symposium on computer architecture
A static analysis of I/O characteristics of scientific applications in a production workload
Proceedings of the 1993 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
A trace-driven analysis of the UNIX 4.2 BSD file system
Proceedings of the tenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
A study of I/O behavior of perfect benchmarks on a multiprocessor
ISCA '90 Proceedings of the 17th annual international symposium on Computer Architecture
Characterizing parallel file-access patterns on a large-scale multiprocessor
IPPS '95 Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Parallel Processing
Dynamic File-Access Characteristics of a Production Parallel Scientific Workload
Dynamic File-Access Characteristics of a Production Parallel Scientific Workload
A Multiprocessor Extension to the Conventional File System Interface
A Multiprocessor Extension to the Conventional File System Interface
DCD—disk caching disk: a new approach for boosting I/O performance
ISCA '96 Proceedings of the 23rd annual international symposium on Computer architecture
Tuning the performance of I/O-intensive parallel applications
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
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Parallel I/O Subsystems in Massively Parallel Supercomputers
IEEE Parallel & Distributed Technology: Systems & Technology
An Experimental Study of Input/Output Characteristics of NASA Earth and Space Sciences Applications
IPPS '96 Proceedings of the 10th International Parallel Processing Symposium
Evaluating Parallel I/O Energy Efficiency
GREENCOM-CPSCOM '10 Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE/ACM Int'l Conference on Green Computing and Communications & Int'l Conference on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing
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Multiprocessors have permitted astounding increases in computational performance, but many cannot meet the intense I/O requirements of some scientific applications. An important component of any solution to this I/O bottleneck is a parallel file system that can provide high-bandwidth access to tremendous amounts of data in parallel to hundreds or thousands of processors.Most successful systems are based on a solid understanding of the expected workload, but thus far there have been no comprehensive workload characterizations of multiprocessor file systems. This paper presents the results of a three-week tracing study in which all file-related activity on a massively parallel computer was recorded. Our instrumentation differs from previous efforts in that it collects information about every I/O request and about the mix of jobs running in a production environment. We also present the results of a trace-driven caching simulation and recommendations for designers of multiprocessor file systems.