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DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT: Current leadership-class machines suffer from a significant imbalance between their computational power and their I/O bandwidth. I/O forwarding is a paradigm that attempts to bridge the increasing performance and scalability gap between the compute and I/O components of leadership-class machines to meet the requirements of data intensive applications by shipping I/O calls from compute nodes to dedicated I/O nodes. I/O forwarding is a critical component of the I/O subsystem of the IBM Blue Gene P supercomputer currently deployed at several leadership computing facilities.   We evaluate the performance of the existing I/O forwarding mechanisms for BG / P and identify the performance bottlenecks in the current design. We augment the I/O forwarding with two approaches: I/O scheduling using a work-queue model and asynchronous data staging. We evaluate the efficacy of our approaches using micro-benchmarks and application-level benchmarks on leadership-class systems.
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SUMMARY:Accelerating I/O Forwarding in IBM Blue Gene/P Systems
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