A comparison of logical and physical parallel I/O patterns

International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 364-380

  Simitci, Huseyin ^a,b,c,d   Reed, Daniel A ^a,b,e,f  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d Pablo Research Group   (United States)

^e MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; INPUT OUTPUT PROGRAMS; LOGIC PROGRAMMING; MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE; NATURAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

PABLO ANALYSIS TOOLKIT; PARALLEL FILE SYSTEMS; PARALLEL INPUT OUTPUT PATTERNS; REQUEST DELAY;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032162646     PISSN: 10943420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/109434209801200305     Document Type: Review

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