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PIO: Parallel I/O System for Massively Parallel Processors

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In this paper, we propose a parallel I/O system utilizing parallel commodity network attached to multiple I/O processors of parallel processing systems. I/O requests from user application are automatically distributed to parallel I/O channels to achieve the best utilization of parallel network, and the system provides highly scalable performance according to the number of channels. We also provides an API for easy user-level programming and a set of utilities for high-speed data transfer and real-time parallelized visualization based on it.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Japan

    Taisuke Boku & Masazumi Matsubara

  2. Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, Japan

    Ken’ichi Itakura

  3. Institute of Information Sciences and Electronics, University of Tsukuba, Japan

    Masazumi Matsubara

  4. Center for Computational Physics, University of Tsukuba, Japan

    Ken’ichi Itakura

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  1. Taisuke Boku
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  2. Masazumi Matsubara
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  1. Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics,and Astronomy, University of Amsterdam, Kruislaan 403, 1098, SJ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Bob Hertzberger  & Alfons Hoekstra  & 

  2. California Institute of Technology, Caltech 158-79, Pasadena, CA, 91125, USA

    Roy Williams

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Boku, T., Matsubara, M., Itakura, K. (2001). PIO: Parallel I/O System for Massively Parallel Processors. In: Hertzberger, B., Hoekstra, A., Williams, R. (eds) High-Performance Computing and Networking. HPCN-Europe 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2110. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48228-8_39

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