Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
9-14-1994
Technical Report Number
PCS-TR94-230
Abstract
As the I/O needs of parallel scientific applications increase, file systems for multiprocessors are being designed to provide applications with parallel access to multiple disks. Many parallel file systems present applications with a conventional Unix-like interface that allows the application to access multiple disks transparently. By tracing all the activity of a parallel file system in a production, scientific computing environment, we show that many applications exhibit highly regular, but non-consecutive I/O access patterns. Since the conventional interface does not provide an efficient method of describing these patterns, we present an extension which supports strided and nested-strided I/O requests.
Dartmouth Digital Commons Citation
Nieuwejaar, Nils and Kotz, David, "A Multiprocessor Extension to the Conventional File System Interface" (1994). Computer Science Technical Report PCS-TR94-230. https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/cs_tr/103
Comments
A result of the CHARISMA project. This report has been superceded by report PCS-TR95-253