
Contents
List of Figures xix
List of Tables xxv
Foreword xxvii
Preface xxix
Acknowledgments xxxi
Contributors xxxix
I Parallel I/O in Practice 1
1 Parallel I/O at HPC Facilities 3
Galen Shipman
2 National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center 5
Jason Hick
2.1 HPC at NERSC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.2 I/O Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.2.1 Local Scratch File Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.2.2 Storage Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.2.3 The NERSC Global File Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2.2.4 Archival Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2.3 ...