Tirthak Patel, Northeastern University; Suren Byna, Glenn K. Lockwood, and Nicholas J. Wright, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Philip Carns and Robert Ross, Argonne National Laboratory; Devesh Tiwari, Northeastern University
Large-scale high-performance computing (HPC) applications running on supercomputers produce large amounts of data routinely and store it in files on multi-PB shared parallel storage systems. Unfortunately, storage community has a limited understanding of the access and reuse patterns of these files. This paper investigates the access and reuse patterns of I/O- intensive files on a production-scale supercomputer.
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author = {Tirthak Patel and Suren Byna and Glenn K. Lockwood and Nicholas J. Wright and Philip Carns and Robert Ross and Devesh Tiwari},
title = {Uncovering Access, Reuse, and Sharing Characteristics of {I/O-Intensive} Files on {Large-Scale} Production {HPC} Systems},
booktitle = {18th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST 20)},
year = {2020},
isbn = {978-1-939133-12-0},
address = {Santa Clara, CA},
pages = {91--101},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/fast20/presentation/patel-hpc-systems},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = feb
}