Proceedings of the fourth workshop on I/O in parallel and distributed systems: part of the federated computing research conference
ENWRICH: a compute-processor write caching scheme for parallel file systems
Proceedings of the fourth workshop on I/O in parallel and distributed systems: part of the federated computing research conference
Remote I/O: fast access to distant storage
Proceedings of the fifth workshop on I/O in parallel and distributed systems
Parallel Input/Output with Heterogeneous Disks
SSDBM '97 Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management
Disk Resident Arrays: An Array-Oriented I/O Library for Out-Of-Core Computations
FRONTIERS '96 Proceedings of the 6th Symposium on the Frontiers of Massively Parallel Computation
Why does file system prefetching work?
ATEC '99 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
Improving I/O performance of applications through compiler-directed code restructuring
FAST'08 Proceedings of the 6th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies
Comparative evaluation of overlap strategies with study of I/O overlap in MPI-IO
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
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New file systems are critical to obtain good I/O performance on large multiprocessors. Several researchers have suggested the use of collective file-system operations, in which all processes in an application cooperate in each I/O request. Others have suggested that the traditional low-level interface (read, write, seek) be augmented with various higher-level requests (e.g., read matrix). Collective, high-level requests permit a technique called disk-directed I/O to significantly improve performance over traditional file systems and interfaces, at least on simple I/O benchmarks. In this paper we present the results of experiments with an "out-of-core" LU-decomposition program. Although its collective interface was awkward in some places, and forced additional synchronization, disk-directed I/O was able to obtain much better overall performance than the traditional system.