{"title":"Interval Based I/O: A New Approach to Providing High Performance Parallel I/O","authors":"Jeremy S. Logan, P. Dickens","doi":"10.1109/ICPPW.2011.45","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Providing scalable, high-performance parallel I/O for data-intensive computations is beset by a number of difficult challenges. The most often cited difficulties include the non-contiguous I/O patterns prominent in scientific codes, the lack of support for parallel I/O optimizations in POSIX, the high cost of providing strict file consistency semantics, and the cost of accessing storage devices over a network. We believe, however, that a more fundamental problem is the legacy view of a file as a linear sequence of bytes. To address this issue, we are developing a new approach to parallel I/O that is based on what we term intervals and interval files. This paper provides an overview of the interval-IO system and a set of benchmarks demonstrating the power of this new approach.","PeriodicalId":173271,"journal":{"name":"2011 40th International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2011-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2011 40th International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPPW.2011.45","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Providing scalable, high-performance parallel I/O for data-intensive computations is beset by a number of difficult challenges. The most often cited difficulties include the non-contiguous I/O patterns prominent in scientific codes, the lack of support for parallel I/O optimizations in POSIX, the high cost of providing strict file consistency semantics, and the cost of accessing storage devices over a network. We believe, however, that a more fundamental problem is the legacy view of a file as a linear sequence of bytes. To address this issue, we are developing a new approach to parallel I/O that is based on what we term intervals and interval files. This paper provides an overview of the interval-IO system and a set of benchmarks demonstrating the power of this new approach.