Scalable implementations of MPI atomicity for concurrent overlapping I/O

Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 239-246

  Liao, W K ^a   Choudhary, Alok ^a   Coloma, K ^a   Thiruvathukal, G K ^b   Ward, L ^c   Russell, E ^c   Pundit, N ^c  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Application software; Bandwidth; Concurrent computing; File systems; Hardware; Laboratories; Large scale systems; Multidimensional systems; Performance analysis; Programming

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER HARDWARE; FILE ORGANIZATION; IODINE; LABORATORIES; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; LOCKS (FASTENERS); MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; SEMANTICS;

CONCURRENT COMPUTING; FILE SYSTEMS; GRAPH COLORINGS; MULTIDIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; POSIX STANDARDS; PROGRAMMING SOLUTIONS; SCALABLE IMPLEMENTATION;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING;

EID: 12444334623     PISSN: 01903918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPP.2003.1240586     Document Type: Conference Paper

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