Characterizing and predicting the I/O performance of HPC applications using a parameterized synthetic benchmark

2008 SC - International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, SC 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Shan, Hongzhang ^a   Antypas, Katie ^a   Shalf, John ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

I/O BENCHMARK; I/O PERFORMANCE; I/O SYSTEMS; PARAMETERIZED; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SCALABLE PERFORMANCE; STAND -ALONE; SYNTHETIC BENCHMARK;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 70350787089     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SC.2008.5222721     Document Type: Conference Paper

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