Implementing MPI-IO shared file pointers without file system support

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3666 LNCS, Issue , 2005, Pages 84-93

  Latham, Robert ^a   Ross, Robert ^a   Thakur, Rajeev ^a   Toonen, Brian ^a  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; SEMANTICS;

FILE SYSTEM SUPPORT; MPI-2 STANDARD; MPI-IO SHARED FILE POINTERS;

FILE ORGANIZATION;

EID: 33646121987     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11557265_15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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