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ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
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ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
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SIGMOD '88 Proceedings of the 1988 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
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Prefetching and caching techniques in file systems for MIMD multiprocessors
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ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
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IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
PC-OPT: Optimal Offline Prefetching and Caching for Parallel I/O Systems
IEEE Transactions on Computers
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IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
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ICPP '02 Proceedings of the 2001 International Conference on Parallel Processing
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IPPS '95 Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Parallel Processing
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The Galley Parallel File System
The Galley Parallel File System
ENWRICH: A Compute-Processor Write Caching Scheme for Parallel File Systems
ENWRICH: A Compute-Processor Write Caching Scheme for Parallel File Systems
Automatic classification of input/output access patterns
Automatic classification of input/output access patterns
Supporting data management on cluster grids
Future Generation Computer Systems
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Abstract--Caching has been intensively used in memory and traditional file systems to improve system performance. However, the use of caching in parallel file systems and I/O libraries has been limited to I/O nodes to avoid cache coherence problems. In this paper, we specify an adaptive cache coherence protocol very suitable for parallel file systems and parallel I/O libraries. This model exploits the use of caching, both at processing and I/O nodes, providing performance increase mechanisms as aggressive prefetching and delayed-write techniques. The cache coherence problem is solved by using a dynamic scheme of cache coherence protocols with different sizes and shapes of granularity. The proposed model is very appropriate for parallel I/O interfaces, as MPI-IO. Performance results, obtained on an IBM SP2, are presented to demonstrate the advantages offered by the cache management methods proposed.