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Parallel I/O In Practice
DescriptionI/O on HPC systems is a black art. This tutorial sheds light on the state-of-the-art in parallel I/O and provides the knowledge necessary for attendees to best leverage I/O resources available to them. We cover the entire I/O software stack including storage and parallel file systems at the lowest layer, the role of NVRAM devices, intermediate layers (such as MPI-IO), and high-level I/O libraries (such as HDF-5). We emphasize ways to use these interfaces that result in high performance and tools for generating insight into these stacks.
Our first third of the tutorial covers parallel I/O fundamentals. We discuss storage technologies, both present and near-future and the major parallel and distributed file systems. We focus on application in our second third, connecting storage to our examination of the upper library layers of the I/O stack, covering MPI-IO, Parallel netCDF, and HDF5. Finally, we discuss tools for understanding I/O behavior.
Our first third of the tutorial covers parallel I/O fundamentals. We discuss storage technologies, both present and near-future and the major parallel and distributed file systems. We focus on application in our second third, connecting storage to our examination of the upper library layers of the I/O stack, covering MPI-IO, Parallel netCDF, and HDF5. Finally, we discuss tools for understanding I/O behavior.
Event Type
Tutorial
TimeMonday, 13 November 20238:30am - 5pm MST
Location401
Architecture and Networks
I/O and File Systems
TUT