A Case Study in Application I/O on Linux Clusters

Proceedings of the International Conference on Supercomputing

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 11-

  Ross, Robert ^a   Nurmi, Daniel ^a   Cheng, Albert ^b   Zingale, Michael ^c  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; ASTROPHYSICS; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; DIGITAL STORAGE; FILE ORGANIZATION; LINUX; MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

CASE-STUDIES; DISTRIBUTED STORAGE; HIGH LEVEL INTERFACE; LINUX CLUSTERS; PARALLEL SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS; PERFORMANCE; SOFTWARE-COMPONENT; STORAGE SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS AND SOFTWARE; SYSTEMS PERFORMANCE;

MESSAGE PASSING;

EID: 85129642101     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/582034.582045     Document Type: Conference Paper

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