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A parallel I/O test suite

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Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface (EuroPVM/MPI 1998)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNCS,volume 1497))

Abstract

Amongst its many features, MPI-2 offers the first standard high-performance I/O interface. While this enables a parallel and I/O intensive code to run on multiple platforms, achieving consistent performance levels will be more difficult than many users imagine. To better understand the I/O performance issues in MPI-2, fecit and Southampton have developed a parallel I/O test suite for Fujitsu Japan. The design of this test suite is presented, along with a discussion concerning the need for a validation suite for MPI-2 as a whole.

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  1. University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

    D. Lancaster

  2. Fujitsu European Centre for Information Technology, Uxbridge, UK

    C. Addison & T. Oliver

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  1. D. Lancaster
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Vassil Alexandrov Jack Dongarra

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Lancaster, D., Addison, C., Oliver, T. (1998). A parallel I/O test suite. In: Alexandrov, V., Dongarra, J. (eds) Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface. EuroPVM/MPI 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1497. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0056557

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