Theses and Dissertations

Issuing Body

Mississippi State University

Advisor

Dampier, David A.

Committee Member

Skjellum, Anthony

Committee Member

Allen, Edward B.

Date of Degree

8-2-2003

Document Type

Graduate Thesis - Open Access

Major

Computer Science

Degree Name

Master of Science

College

James Worth Bagley College of Engineering

Department

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Abstract

Performance of the I/O subsystem plays a significant role in parallel applications that need to access large amounts of data. I/O performance in such applications is expected to be scalable and balanced with respect to the communication and CPU performance. MPIIO, a part of the MPI-2 standard has many implementations. Each of the available clientside parallel architectures differ widely in their approach to achieving high performance. This thesis hypothesizes that the effectiveness of each available client-side parallel architecture differs in delivering overall parallel application performance for a given underlying file system and that increasing the performance for different workload characteristics requires different designs. This hypothesis is validated by the development of appropriate metrics and the analysis of the results, obtained from running the experiments.

URI

https://hdl.handle.net/11668/19427

Comments

MercutIO||ROMIO||MPI-IO||NFS||PVFS

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