[Crib-list] Computational Research in Boston Seminar -- SPEAKER: Jeffrey Layton (Dell, Inc.) -- Friday, 12/11/2009 -- 12:30 PM -- Room 32-144

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			COMPUTATIONAL RESEARCH in BOSTON SEMINAR

DATE:		Friday, DECEMBER 11, 2009
TIME:		12:30 PM
LOCATION:	Building 32, Room 144  (Stata Center)

Pizza and beverages will be provided at 12:15 PM outside Room 32-144.


TITLE:		IO Pattern Characterization of HPC Applications


SPEAKER:	JEFFREY LAYTON   (Dell Inc.)


ABSTRACT:

The HPC world is finally waking up to the importance of storage as an 
integral part of an HPC solution. However, the biggest problem that HPC 
centers face is that they don't understand how their applications perform 
IO (i.e. IO pattern) and how to then translate the results into useful 
requirements to define the hardware and file system for the HPC storage. 
In addition, the knowledge of the IO patterns allows the application 
developers to change the IO pattern to improve the IO performance. This 
talk presents a new technique for obtaining IO information and analyzing 
it to present IO pattern information.


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