Overview of the Vesta parallel file system
ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News - Special issue on input/output in parallel computer systems
PPFS: a high performance portable parallel file system
ICS '95 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Supercomputing
The galley parallel file system
ICS '96 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Supercomputing
Performance increase mechanisms for parallel and distributed file systems
Parallel Computing - Special double issue: parallel I/O
On implementing MPI-IO portably and with high performance
Proceedings of the sixth workshop on I/O in parallel and distributed systems
Effective Communication and File-I/O Bandwidth Benchmarks
Proceedings of the 8th European PVM/MPI Users' Group Meeting on Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface
Hfs: a flexible file system for shared-memory multiprocessors
Hfs: a flexible file system for shared-memory multiprocessors
Automatic classification of input/output access patterns
Automatic classification of input/output access patterns
Interposed request routing for scalable network storage
OSDI'00 Proceedings of the 4th conference on Symposium on Operating System Design & Implementation - Volume 4
A global and parallel file system for grids
Future Generation Computer Systems - Special section: Data mining in grid computing environments
The Journal of Supercomputing
A new i/o architecture for improving the performance in large scale clusters
ICCSA'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Computational Science and Its Applications - Volume Part V
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This paper describes an implementation of MPI-IO using a new parallel file system, called Expand (Expandable Parallel File System), that is based on NFS servers. Expand combines multiple NFS servers to create a distributed partition where files are declustered. Expand requires no changes to the NFS server and uses RPC operations to provide parallel access to the same file. Expand is also independent of the clients, because all operations are implemented using RPC and NFS protocol. The paper describes the design, the implementation and the evaluation of Expand with MPI-IO. This evaluation has been made in Linux clusters and compares Expand and PVFS.