Document Type

Conference Paper

Publication Date

12-1991

Publication Title

Proceedings of the First International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Information Systems (PDIS)

Department

Department of Computer Science

Abstract

Parallel disk subsystems have been proposed as one way to close the gap between processor and disk speeds. In a previous paper we showed that prefetching and caching have the potential to deliver the performance benefits of parallel file systems to parallel applications. In this paper we describe experiments with practical prefetching policies, and show that prefetching can be implemented efficiently even for the more complex parallel file access patterns. We test these policies across a range of architectural parameters.

DOI

10.1109/PDIS.1991.183101

Original Citation

David Kotz and Carla Schlatter Ellis. Practical Prefetching Techniques for Parallel File Systems. In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Information Systems (PDIS), December 1991. 10.1109/PDIS.1991.183101

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