Placement of I/O Servers to Improve Parallel I/O Performance on Switch-Based Clusters

Proceedings of the International Conference on Supercomputing

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 244-251

  Wu, Jan Jan ^a   Wang, Da Wei ^a   Lin, Yih Fang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bipartite matching; Parallel I O; Part time I O assignment; Switch based clusters

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; DATA REDUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SERVERS; SWITCHES;

BIPARTITE MATCHING; PARALLEL I/O; PART-TIME I/O ASSIGNMENTS; SWITCH-BASED CLUSTERS;

INPUT OUTPUT PROGRAMS;

EID: 1142280981     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/782848.782849     Document Type: Conference Paper

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