High Performance Parallel I/O

✍ Scribed by I Foster; W Gentzsch; L Grandinetti

• Publisher: IOS Press, Wiley-IEEE Press, CRC Press
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 436
• Series: Advances in parallel computing, v.20
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Parallel I/O is an integral component of modern high performance computing (HPC), especially in storing and processing very large datasets to facilitate scientific discovery. Revealing the state of the art in this field, High Performance Parallel I/O draws on insights from leading practitioners, researchers, software architects, developers, and scientists who shed light on the parallel I/O ecosystem.
The first part of the book explains how large-scale HPC facilities scope, configure, and operate systems, with an emphasis on choices of I/O hardware, middleware, and applications. The book then traverses up the I/O software stack. The second part covers the file system layer and the third part discusses middleware (such as MPIIO and PLFS) and user-facing libraries (such as Parallel-NetCDF, HDF5, ADIOS, and GLEAN).
Delving into real-world scientific applications that use the parallel I/O infrastructure, the fourth part presents case studies from particle-in-cell, stochastic, finite volume, and direct numerical simulations. The fifth part gives an overview of various profiling and benchmarking tools used by practitioners. The final part of the book addresses the implications of current trends in HPC on parallel I/O in the exascale world.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Title Page; Preface; Contents; State-of-the-Art and Future Scenarios; Grids and Clouds; Technologies and Systems; Applications; Subject Index; Author Index.
Abstract: In the last decade, parallel computing technologies have transformed high-performance computing. Two trends have emerged: massively parallel computing leading to exascale on the one hand and moderately parallel applications, which have opened up high-performance computing for the masses, on the other. The availability of commodity hardware components, a wide spectrum of parallel applications in research and industry and user-friendly management and development tools have enabled access to parallel and high-performance computing for a wide spectrum of end users from research and academia to mid

✦ Subjects

Информатика и вычислительная техника;Организация ЭВМ и архитектура ВС;