Synchronized Disk Interleaving
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Multi-disk management algorithms
SIGMETRICS '87 Proceedings of the 1987 ACM SIGMETRICS conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
A case for redundant arrays of inexpensive disks (RAID)
SIGMOD '88 Proceedings of the 1988 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Data Engineering
Performance measurement of a parallel Input/Output system for the Intel iPSC/2 Hypercube
SIGMETRICS '91 Proceedings of the 1991 ACM SIGMETRICS conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Efficient data-parallel files via automatic mode detection
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
HFS: a performance-oriented flexible file system based on building-block compositions
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Dynamic file-access characteristics of a production parallel scientific workload
Proceedings of the 1994 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
An efficient abstract interface for multidimensional array I/O
Proceedings of the 1994 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
Parallel I/O templates for enterprise
CASCON '95 Proceedings of the 1995 conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research
Dynamic Access Load Balancing on the Parallel Secondary Storage
PAS '97 Proceedings of the 2nd AIZU International Symposium on Parallel Algorithms / Architecture Synthesis
Using PI/OT to Support Complex Parallel I/O
IPPS '98 Proceedings of the 12th. International Parallel Processing Symposium on International Parallel Processing Symposium
Supporting data management on cluster grids
Future Generation Computer Systems
An efficient parallel file system for cluster grids
PVM/MPI'05 Proceedings of the 12th European PVM/MPI users' group conference on Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface
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The subject of I/O has often been neglected in the design of parallel computer systems, although for many problems I/O rates will limit the speedup attainable. The I/O problem is addressed here by considering the role of files in parallel systems. The notion of parallel files is introduced. Parallel files provide for concurrent access by multiple processes, and utilize parallelism in the I/O system to improve performance. Parallel files can also be used conventionally by sequential programs. A set of standard parallel file organizations is proposed, based on common data partitioning techniques. Implementation strategies for the proposed organizations are suggested, using multiple storage devices. Problem areas are also identified and discussed.