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Accession Number
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DE2012-1033537
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Title
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Enhancing I/O Throughput via Efficient Routing and Placement for Large-scale Parallel File Systems.
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Publication Date
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Jan 2011
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Media Count
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9p
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Personal Author
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D. A. Dillow G. M. Shipman S. Oral Y. Kim Z. Zhang
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Abstract
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As storage systems get larger to meet the demands of petascale systems, careful planning must be applied to avoid congestion points and extract the maximum performance. In addition, the large data sets generated by such systems makes it desirable for all compute resources to have common access to this data without needing to copy it to each machine. This paper describes a method of placing I/O close to the storage nodes to minimize contention on Crays SeaStar2+ network, and extends it to a routed Lustre configuration to gain the same benefits when running against a center-wide file system. Our experiments using half of the resources of Spider the center-wide file system at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility show that I/O write bandwidth can be improved by up to 45% (from 71.9 to 104 GB/s) for a direct-attached configuration and by 137% (47.6 GB/s to 115 GB/s) for a routed configuration. We demonstrated up to 20.7% reduction in run-time for production scientific applications. With the full Spider system, we demonstrated over 240 GB/s of aggregate bandwidth using our techniques.
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Keywords
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Communications
Computer networks
Configuration
Data storage
Parallel processing
Performance
Planning
Production
Routing
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Source Agency
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Technical Information Center Oak Ridge Tennessee
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NTIS Subject Category
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62B - Computer Software
45C - Common Carrier & Satellite
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Corporate Author
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Oak Ridge National Lab., TN.
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Document Type
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Technical report
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Title Note
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N/A
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NTIS Issue Number
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1309
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Contract Number
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DE-AC05-00OR22725
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