A Split-Phase Interface for Parallel File Systems

Dartmouth Technical Report PCS-TR97-312

	Sanjay Khanna
	David Kotz

Date: March 1997

URL (compressed postscript): <http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR97-312.ps.Z> (56KB)

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Abstract:
 We describe the effects of a new user-level library for the 
 Galley Parallel File System.  This library allows some pre-existing 
 sequential programs to make use of the Galley Parallel File System 
 with minimal modification.  It permits programs to efficiently use 
 the parallel file system because the 
 user-level library groups accesses together. 
 We examine the performance of our library, and we 
 show how code needs to be modified to use the library.