Noncontiguous I/O through PVFS

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, ICCC

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 405-414

  Ching, Avery ^a   Choudhary, A ^a   Liao, Wei Keng ^a   Ross, R ^b   Gropp, W ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Application software; Computer science; Concurrent computing; Costs; Distributed computing; File servers; File systems; Linux; Mathematics; Network servers

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; CLUSTER COMPUTING; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COSTS; FILE ORGANIZATION; LINUX; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; SERVERS;

CONCURRENT COMPUTING; FILE SERVERS; FILE SYSTEMS; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; NETWORK SERVER; PARALLEL FILE SYSTEM; PARALLEL VIRTUAL FILE SYSTEMS; SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84948958222     PISSN: 15525244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CLUSTR.2002.1137773     Document Type: Conference Paper

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