Parallel I/O Archive

European users please note there is a mirror site (sort of).

Key resources:

• People in the field
• Research Projects
• Parallel I/O bibliography
• Dictionary on Parallel Input/Output, by Heinz Stockinger, February 1998. 223 pages.
  • (Postscript 1.6MB)
  • (PDF 817KB)
• Dealing with Massive Data: from Parallel I/O to Grid I/O, by Rainer Hubovsky and Florian Kunz, January 2004. 302 pages. Similar to Heinz Stockinger's Dictionary on Parallel I/O.
  • (PDF 3.1MB)
• The Storage Networking Industry Association maintains the World Wide Repository for I/O Traces, Tools and Analysis

Journals that publish parallel I/O articles:

• Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC)
• IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS)
• ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS)

Call for Papers

• IPDPS 2009, Rome, Italy, 2009-05-25, deadline=2008-10-03

Upcoming Events

• SC 2008, Austin, TX, 2008-11-15
• FAST 2009, San Francisco, CA, 2009-02-24
• IPDPS 2009, Rome, Italy, 2009-05-25

Past Events (less than a year ago)

• MSST 2008, Baltimore, MD, 2008-09-22
• SISW 2008, Baltimore, MD, 2008-09-22
• SNAPI 2008, Baltimore, MD, 2008-09-22
• SDMAS 2008, Las Vegas, NV, 2008-07-14
• FAST 2008, San Jose, CA, 2008-02-26
• SC 2007, Reno, NV, 2007-11-10
• SOSP 07, Stevenson, WA, 2007-10-14

Example programs and benchmark codes

Useful software

• Ganger/Worthington/Patt disk simulator
• Dave Kotz's disk simulator

Anecdotes about parallel I/O

FAQ for comp.arch.storage

Parallel-I/O mailing lists and newsgroups

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