I/O performance challenges at leadership scale

S Lang, P Carns, R Latham, R Ross, K Harms… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - dl.acm.org
Today's top high performance computing systems run applications with hundreds of
thousands of processes, contain hundreds of storage nodes, and must meet massive I/O …

Topology-aware data movement and staging for I/O acceleration on Blue Gene/P supercomputing systems

V Vishwanath, M Hereld, V Morozov… - Proceedings of 2011 …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
There is growing concern that I/O systems will be hard pressed to satisfy the requirements of
future leadership-class machines. Even current machines are found to be I/O bound for …

High performance file I/O for the Blue Gene/L supercomputer

H Yu, RK Sahoo, C Howson, G Almasi… - … Symposium on High …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Parallel I/O plays a crucial role for most data-intensive applications running on massively
parallel systems like Blue Gene/L that provides the promise of delivering enormous …

Optimization techniques at the I/O forwarding layer

K Ohta, D Kimpe, J Cope, K Iskra… - 2010 IEEE …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
I/O is the critical bottleneck for data-intensive scientific applications on HPC systems and
leadership-class machines. Applications running on these systems may encounter …

I/O requirements of scientific applications: An evolutionary view

E Smirni, RA Aydt, AA Chien… - Proceedings of 5th IEEE …, 1996 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The modest I/O configurations and file system limitations of many current high-performance
systems preclude solution of problems with large I/O needs. I/O hardware and file system …

End-to-end i/o portfolio for the summit supercomputing ecosystem

S Oral, SS Vazhkudai, F Wang, C Zimmer… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
The I/O subsystem for the Summit supercomputer, No. 1 on the Top500 list, and its
ecosystem of analysis platforms is composed of two distinct layers, namely the in-system …

A case study in application I/O on Linux clusters

R Ross, D Nurmi, A Cheng, M Zingale - Proceedings of the 2001 ACM …, 2001 - dl.acm.org
A critical but often ignored component of system performance is the I/O system. Today's
applications demand a great deal from underlying storage systems and software, and both …

Hello ADIOS: the challenges and lessons of developing leadership class I/O frameworks

Q Liu, J Logan, Y Tian, H Abbasi… - Concurrency and …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Applications running on leadership platforms are more and more bottlenecked by storage
input/output (I/O). In an effort to combat the increasing disparity between I/O throughput and …

Accelerating i/o forwarding in ibm blue gene/p systems

V Vishwanath, M Hereld, K Iskra… - SC'10: Proceedings …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Current leadership-class machines suffer from a significant imbalance between their
computational power and their I/O bandwidth. I/O forwarding is a paradigm that attempts to …

Revisiting I/O behavior in large-scale storage systems: The expected and the unexpected

T Patel, S Byna, GK Lockwood, D Tiwari - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Large-scale applications typically spend a large fraction of their execution time performing
I/O to a parallel storage system. However, with rapid progress in compute and storage …