Throughput of Existing Multiprocessor File Systems (An Informal Study)

Dartmouth Technical Report PCS-TR93-190

	David Kotz

Date:  1993

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Abstract:
 	Fast file systems are critical for high-performance scientific
 computing, since many scientific applications have tremendous I/O
 requirements. Many parallel supercomputers have only recently obtained
 fully parallel I/O architectures and file systems, which are necessary
 for scalable I/O performance. Scalability aside, I show here that many
 systems lack sufficient absolute performance. I do this by surveying
 the performance reported in the literature, summarized in an informal
 table.