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The data generated by a High Performance Computing(HPC) server is very large. For example, a combustion chemical reaction flow simulation generates hundreds gigabytes data. In order to analyze this enormous amount of data, a huge HPC server and huge pre/post systems are both necessary. In this paper, we have benchmarked the I/O performance of two applications on NS-III. One application environment is the GSN library visualization system and the other is FORTRAN I/O library on NS-III. NS-III is the name of a supercomputer system located at National Aerospace Laboratory. That system has a nine-teraflops compute system, a huge visualization system, and a high-speed mass storage system. These servers are connected with GSN, and/or crossbar-network. In addition to benchmark results, we also demonstrate the user-programming interface of the GSN library that realizes a file sharing.
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Fujita, N., Ookawa, H. (2003). The GSN Library and FORTRAN Level I/O Benchmarks on the NS-III HPC System. In: Veidenbaum, A., Joe, K., Amano, H., Aiso, H. (eds) High Performance Computing. ISHPC 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2858. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39707-6_41
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