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Parallel I/O and Storage
Application demands for IO such as writing checkpoint and movie files threaten to outpace the capabilities of IO subsystems to satisfy those demands, especially as system scales increase to the Petascale and beyond. The ORNL Future Technologies Group is investigating IO for these extreme-scale computing IO challenges. We study application IO demands (including how to determine those demands), how well current and expected IO solutions meet those demands, and how to address the gap between application demands and achievable performance.
Recent Publications
"Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of Transparent pNFS on Lustre" 
"Performance of RDMA-capable Storage Protocols on Wide-Area Network"
"Empirical Analysis of a Large-Scale Hierarchical Storage System"
"ParColl: Partitioned Collective IO on the Cray XT"
"Performance Characterization and Optimization of Parallel I/O on the Cray XT"
"Xen-Based HPC: A Parallel IO Perspective"
"FlexFetch: A History-Aware Scheme for I/O Energy Saving in Mobile Computing"
"OPAL: An Open-Source MPI-IO Library over Cray XT"
"Exploiting Lustre File Joining for Effective Collective IO"
"Efficiency Evaluation of Cray XT Parallel IO Stack"
Yu,W.,Drokin,O.,Vetter,J.S.
23rd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'09), 2009
"Performance of RDMA-capable Storage Protocols on Wide-Area Network"
Yu,W.,Rao,N.S.V.,Wyckoff,P.,Vetter,J.S.
Peta-Byte Storage Workshop 2008 (PDSW08), 2008
"Empirical Analysis of a Large-Scale Hierarchical Storage System"
Yu,W.,Oral,H.S.,Canon,R.S.,Vetter,J.S.,Sankaran,R.
The 14th European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2008), 2008
"ParColl: Partitioned Collective IO on the Cray XT"
Yu,W.,Vetter,J.S.
The 37th International Conference on Parallel Processing., 2008
"Performance Characterization and Optimization of Parallel I/O on the Cray XT"
Yu,W.,Vetter,J.S.,Oral,H.S.
22nd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'08)., 2008
"Xen-Based HPC: A Parallel IO Perspective"
Yu,W.,Vetter,J.S.,
8th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid'08)., 2008
"FlexFetch: A History-Aware Scheme for I/O Energy Saving in Mobile Computing"
Chen,Feng,Jiang,Song,Shi,Weisong,Yu,Weikuan
International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP-07), 2007
"OPAL: An Open-Source MPI-IO Library over Cray XT"
Yu,Weikuan,Vetter,Jeffrey,Canon,Shane
International Workshop on Storage Network Architecture and Parallel I/O (SNAPI'07). Held together with IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies, 2007
"Exploiting Lustre File Joining for Effective Collective IO"
Yu,W.,Vetter,J.S.,Canon,R.S.,Jiang,S.
Int'l Conference on Clusters Computing and Grid (CCGrid '07), 2007
"Efficiency Evaluation of Cray XT Parallel IO Stack"
Yu,Weikuan,Oral,Sarp,Vetter,Jeffrey,Barrett,Richard
Cray User Group Meeting (CUG 2007), 2007
You can find more publications and downloadable citations at FT Public Publications.