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Scalable Input/Output: Achieving System Balance »

Authors: Daniel A. Reed
ISBN-13: 9780262681421, ISBN-10: 0262681420
Format: Paperback
Publisher: MIT Press
Date Published: October 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Daniel A. Reed

Daniel A. Reed holds the Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell Professorship at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is also Director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), Director of the National Computational Science Alliance, and Chief Architect, NSF TeraGrid.

Book Synopsis

The major research results from the Scalable Input/Output Initiative, exploring software and algorithmic solutions to the I/O imbalance.

	Preface
1	I/O Characterization and Analysis	1
2	Collective I/O and Large-Scale Data Management	35
3	Building Parallel Database Systems for Multidimensional Data	77
4	ADIO: A Framework for High-Performance, Portable Parallel I/O	111
5	Informed Prefetching of Collective Input/Output Requests	135
6	Compiler Support for Out-of-Core Arrays on Parallel Machines	161
7	CLIP: A Checkpointing Tool for Message Passing Parallel Programs	181
8	Learning to Classify Parallel I/O Access Patterns	201
9	Thread Scheduling for Out-of-Core Applications with a Memory Server	233
10	A Scalability Study of Shared Virtual Memory Systems	255
App	Proposal for a Common Parallel File System Programming Interface
	References	355