Title :
A static analysis of I/O characteristics of scientific applications in a production workload
Author :
Pasquale, Barbara K. ; Polyzos, George C.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., California Univ., San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Abstract :
Past research on high performance computers for scientific applications has concentrated on CPU speed and exploitation of parallelism, but has, until very recently, neglected I/O considerations. This paper presents a study of the production workload at the San Diego Supercomputer Center from an I/O requirements and characteristics perspective. Results of the analyses support the hypothesis that a significant proportion of I/O intensive, long running, frequently executed scientific applications have predictable I/O requirements.
Keywords :
data communication; input-output programs; performance evaluation; software performance evaluation; I/O considerations; San Diego Supercomputer Center; high performance computers; production workload; scientific applications; Application software; Central Processing Unit; Computer science; Concurrent computing; High performance computing; Laboratories; Parallel processing; Performance analysis; Production systems; System performance;
Conference_Titel :
Supercomputing '93. Proceedings
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-4340-4
DOI :
10.1109/SUPERC.1993.1263486
