I/O requirements of scientific applications: An evolutionary view

High Performance Mass Storage and Parallel I/O: Technologies and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 576-594

  Smirni, Evgenia ^a   Aydt, Ruth A ^b   Chien, Andrew A ^c   Reed, Daniel A ^b  

^a Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

File systems; Hardware; Instruments; Performance evaluation; Scattering; Synchronization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE; HARDWARE; INSTRUMENTS; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DESIGN; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SCATTERING; SYNCHRONIZATION; VIRTUAL STORAGE;

APPLICATION DEVELOPERS; DISK TRANSFER RATE; FILE SYSTEMS; HIGH PERFORMANCE SYSTEMS; PARALLEL APPLICATION; PARALLEL I/O SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONS; SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS;

FILE ORGANIZATION;

EID: 77954010024     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1109/9780470544839.ch40     Document Type: Chapter

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