High performance support of parallel virtual file (PVFS2) over quadrics

Proceedings of the International Conference on Supercomputing

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 323-331

  Yu, Weikuan ^a   Liang, Shuang ^a   Panda, Dhabaleswar K ^a  

^a The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Parallel 10; Parallel File System; Quadrics; RDMA; Zero Copy

Indexed keywords

PARALLEL 10; PARALLEL FILE SYSTEMS; QUADRICS; RDMA; ZERO-COPY;

BANDWIDTH; CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTATION THEORY; DATA TRANSFER; FILE ORGANIZATION; USER INTERFACES;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 32844467052     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (31)

1. The Parallel Virtual File System, version 2. http://www.pvfs.org/pvfs2.
2. The Public Netperf Homepage. http://www.netperf.org/netperf/NetperfPage. html.
3. J. Beecroft, D. Addison, F. Petrini, and M. McLaren. QsNet-II: An Interconnect for Supercomputing Applications. In the Proceedings of Hot Chips '03, Stanford, CA, August 2003.
4. N. J. Boden, D. Cohen, R. E. Felderman, A. E. Kulawik, C. L. Seitz, J. N. Seizovic, and W.-K. Su. Myrinet: A Gigabit-per-Second Local Area Network. IEEE Micro, 15(1):29-36, 1995.
5. D. Bonachea, C. Bell, P. Hargrove, and M. Welcome. GAS-Net 2: An Alternative High-Performance Communication Interface, Nov. 2004.
6. P. H. Cams, W. B. Ligon III, R. Ross, and P. Wyckoff. BMI: A Network Abstraction Layer for Parallel I/O, April 2005.
7. A. Ching, A. Choudhary, W. Liao, R. Ross, and W. Gropp. Noncontiguous I/O through PVFS. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, Chicago, IL, September 2002.
8. Cluster File System, Inc. Lustre: A Scalable, High Performance File System. http://www.lustre.org/docs.html.
9. A. M. David Nagle, Denis Serenyi. The Panasas ActiveScale Storage Cluster - Delivering Scalable High Bandwidth Storage. In Proceedings of Supercomputing '04, November 2004.
10. M. DeBergalis, P. Corbett, S. Kleiman, A. Lent, D. Noveck, T. Talpey, and M. Wittle. The Direct Access File System. In Proceedings of Second USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '03), 2003.
11. J. Duato, S. Yalamanchili, and L. Ni. Interconnection Networks: An Engineering Approach. The IEEE Computer Society Press, 1997.
12. J. Huber, C. L. Elford, D. A. Reed, A. A. Chien, and D. S. Blumenthal. PPFS: A High Performance Portable Parallel File System. In Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Conference on Supercomputing, pages 385-394, Barcelona, Spain, July 1995. ACM Press.
13. IBM Corp. IBM AIX Parallel I/O File System: Installation, Administration, and Use. Document Number SH34-6065-01, August 1995.
14. Infiniband Trade Association, http://www.infinibandta.org.
15. Intel Scalable Systems Division. Paragon System User's Guide, May 1995.
16. R. Latham, R. Ross, and R. Thakur. The impact of file systems on mpi-io scalability. In Proceedings of the 11th European PVM/MPI Users' Group Meeting (Euro PVM/MPI 2004), pages 87-96, September 2004.
17. J. Liu, M. Banikazemi, B. Abali, and D. K. Panda. A Portable Client/Server Communication Middleware over SANs: Design and Performance Evaluation with InfiniBand. In SAN-02 Workshop (in conjunction with HPCA), February 2003.
18. Message Passing Interface Forum. MPI-2: Extensions to the Message-Passing Interface, Jul 1997.
19. N. Nieuwejaar and D. Kotz. The Galley Parallel File System. Parallel Computing, (4):447-476, June 1997.
20. P. H. Cams and W. B. Ligon III and R. B. Ross and R. Thakur. PVFS: A Parallel File System For Linux Clusters. In Proceedings of the 4th Annual Linux Showcase and Conference, pages 317-327, Atlanta, GA, October 2000.
21. D. A. Patterson, G. Gibson, and R. H. Katz. A Case for Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks. In Proceedings of the 1988 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, Chicago, IL, 1988.
22. F. Petrini, W.-C. Feng, A. Hoisie, S. Coll, and E. Frachtenberg. The Quadrics Network: High Performance Clustering Technology. IEEE Micro, 22(1):46-57, January-February 2002.
23. Quadrics, Inc. Quadrics Linux Cluster Documentation.
24. R. B. Ross. Parallel i/o benchmarking consortium, http://www-unix.mcs. anl.gov/rross/pio-benchmark/html/.
25. R. Thakur, W. Gropp, and E. Lusk. On Implementing MPI-IO Portably and with High Performance. In Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on I/O in Parallel and Distributed Systems, pages 23-32. ACM Press, May 1999.
26. P. Wong and R. F. Van der Wijngaart. NAS Parallel Benchmarks I/O Version 2.4. Technical Report NAS-03-002, Computer Sciences Corporation, NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division.
27. J. Wu, P. Wychoff, and D. K. Panda. PVFS over InfiniBand: Design and Performance Evaluation. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing '03, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, October 2003.
28. J. Wu, P. Wychoff, and D. K. Panda. Supporting Efficient Noncontiguous Access in PVFS over InfiniBand. In Proceedings of Cluster Computing '03, Hong Kong, December 2004.
29. W. Yu, T. S. Woodall, R. L. Graham, and D. K. Panda. Design and Implementation of Open MPI over Quadrics/Elan4. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium '05, Colorado, Denver, April 2005.
30. R. Zahir. Lustre Storage Networking Transport Layer. http://www.lustre. org/docs.html.
31. Y. Zhou, A. Bilas, S. Jagannathan, C. Dubnicki, J. F. Philbin, and K. Li. Experiences with VI Communication for Database Storage. In Proceedings of the 29th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture, pages 257-268. IEEE Computer Society, 2002.