• DocumentCode
    2035652
  • Title

    Impact of Data Placement on Parallel I/O Systems

  • Author

    Sinclair, J.B. ; Tang, J. ; Varman, P.J. ; Iyer, B.R.

  • Author_Institution
    Rice University, USA
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    1993
  • fDate
    16-20 Aug. 1993
  • Firstpage
    276
  • Lastpage
    279
  • Abstract
    The I/O performance of several concurrent external merge jobs sharing a parallel I/O system is studied. The placement of the runs is found to have a significant impact on performance. Placements leading to serialization among jobs were identified and analyzed, and solutions discussed. Contrary to the behavior of a single merge, increasing the buffer size in this situation may actually degrade performance.
  • Keywords
    Database systems; Decision support systems; Degradation; Delay; Merging; Packaging; Parallel processing; Prefetching; Sorting;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Parallel Processing, 1993. ICPP 1993. International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Syracuse, NY, USA
  • ISSN
    0190-3918
  • Print_ISBN
    0-8493-8983-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICPP.1993.100
  • Filename
    4134283