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A Parallel I/O System for High-Performance Distributed Computing

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Programming Environments for Massively Parallel Distributed Systems

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Abstract

PIOUS is a parallel file system architecture for providing process groups access to permanent storage within a heterogeneous network computing environment. PIOUS supports parallel application development by providing coordinated access to parafile file objects with guaranteed consistency semantics and a dynamically-selectable fault tolerance level. For performance, PIOUS declusters files to exploit the combined file I/O and buffer cache capacities of multiple interconnected computer systems.

Research supported by the National Science Foundation, under Award No. CCR-9118787, U. S. Department of Energy, under Grant No. DE-FG05-91ER25105, and the Office of Naval Research under grant N00014-93-1-0278.

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA

    Steven A. Moyer & V. S. Sunderam

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  1. Swiss Scientific Computing Center, CSCS ETH-Zürich, Via Cantonale, CH-6928, Manno

    Karsten M. Decker (Director of Research and Development) & René M. Rehmann (Research Scientist) (Director of Research and Development) &  (Research Scientist)

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Moyer, S.A., Sunderam, V.S. (1994). A Parallel I/O System for High-Performance Distributed Computing. In: Decker, K.M., Rehmann, R.M. (eds) Programming Environments for Massively Parallel Distributed Systems. Monte Verità. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8534-8_25

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