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Publication
PDSW - SC 2009
Conference paper
pNFS, POSIX, and MPI-IO: A tale of three semantics
Abstract
MPI-IO is emerging as the standard mechanism for file I/O within HPC applications. While pNFS demonstrates high-performance I/O for bulk data transfers, its performance and scalability with MPI-IO is unproven. To attain success, the consistency semantics and interfaces of pNFS, POSIX, and MPI-IO must all be reconciled and efficiently translated. This paper investigates and discusses the challenges of using pNFS to support the consistency semantics of HPC applications. © 2009 ACM.