@Book{grop99a, author = {William Gropp and Ewing Lusk and Rajeev Thakur}, title = {{Using MPI-2: Advanced Features of the Message-Passing Interface}}, publisher = {MIT Press}, year = 1999, address = {Cambridge, MA} } @Misc{mpi97a, author = "{Message Passing Interface Forum}", title = "{{MPI-2}: Extensions to the Message-Passing Interface}", note = "{\tt http://www.mpi-forum.org/docs/docs.html}", year = {July 1997} } @InProceedings{thak96e, author = {Rajeev Thakur and William Gropp and Ewing Lusk}, title = {An Abstract-Device Interface for Implementing Portable Parallel-{I/O} Interfaces}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 6th Symposium on the Frontiers of Massively Parallel Computation}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press}, pages = {180--187}, month = {October}, year = {1996} } @InProceedings{thak99b, author = {Rajeev Thakur and William Gropp and Ewing Lusk}, title = {On Implementing {MPI-IO} Portably and with High Performance}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on I/O in Parallel and Distributed Systems}, pages = {23--32}, year = {1999}, month = {May}, publisher = {ACM Press} } @InProceedings{bordawekar:primitives, author = {Rajesh Bordawekar and Juan Miguel {del Rosario} and Alok Choudhary}, title = {Design and Evaluation of Primitives for Parallel {I/O}}, booktitle = {Proceedings of Supercomputing '93}, year = {1993}, pages = {452--461}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press}, address = {Portland, OR}, URL = {ftp://erc.cat.syr.edu/ece/choudhary/PASSION/sc93.ps.Z}, keywords = {parallel I/O, pario-bib}, abstract = {In this paper, we show that the performance of parallel file systems can vary greatly as a function of the selected data distributions, and that some data distributions can not be supported. Also, we describe how the parallel language extensions, though simplifying the programming, do not address the performance problems found in parallel file systems. \par We have devised an alternative scheme for conducting parallel I/O - the Two-Phase Access Strategy - which guarantees higher and more consistent performance over a wider spectrum of data distributions. We have designed and implemented runtime primitives that make use of the two-phase access strategy to conduct parallel I/O, and facilitate the programming of parallel I/O operations. We describe these primitives in detail and provide performance results which show that I/O access rates are improved by up to several orders of magnitude. Further, we show that the variation in performance over various data distributions is restricted to within a factor of 2 of the best access rate.}, comment = {Much of this is the same as delrosario:two-phase, except for section~4 where they describe their actual run-time library of primitives, with a little bit about how it works. It's not clear, for example, how their meta-data structures are distributed across the machine. They also do not describe their methods for the data redistribution.} } @TechReport{choudhary:passion, author = {Alok Choudhary and Rajesh Bordawekar and Michael Harry and Rakesh Krishnaiyer and Ravi Ponnusamy and Tarvinder Singh and Rajeev Thakur}, title = {{PASSION:} Parallel And Scalable Software for Input-Output}, year = {1994}, month = {September}, number = {SCCS-636}, institution = {ECE Dept., NPAC and CASE Center, Syracuse University}, later = {thakur:jpassion}, URL = {ftp://erc.cat.syr.edu/ece/choudhary/PASSION/passion_report.ps.Z}, keywords = {parallel I/O, out-of-core, pario-bib}, comment = {This TR overviews the PASSION project, and all its components: two-phase access, out-of-core support for structured and unstructured problems, data sieving, prefetching, caching, compiler and language support, file system support, virtual parallel file system, and parallel pipes. They reference many of their related papers in an extensive bibliography. See also singh:adopt, jadav:ioschedule, thakur:passion, thakur:runtime, bordawekar:efficient, thakur:out-of-core, delrosario:prospects, delrosario:two-phase, bordawekar:primitives, bordawekar:delta-fs.} }