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Title: Cooperative storage of shared files in a parallel computing system with dynamic block size

Improved techniques are provided for parallel writing of data to a shared object in a parallel computing system. A method is provided for storing data generated by a plurality of parallel processes to a shared object in a parallel computing system. The method is performed by at least one of the processes and comprises: dynamically determining a block size for storing the data; exchanging a determined amount of the data with at least one additional process to achieve a block of the data having the dynamically determined block size; and writing the block of the data having the dynamically determined block size to a file system. The determined block size comprises, e.g., a total amount of the data to be stored divided by the number of parallel processes. The file system comprises, for example, a log structured virtual parallel file system, such as a Parallel Log-Structured File System (PLFS).
Inventors:
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Issue Date:
OSTI Identifier:
1225724
Assignee:
Los Alamos National Security, LLC LANL
Patent Number(s):
9,183,211
Application Number:
13/730,080
Contract Number:
AC52-06NA25396
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 2012 Dec 28
Research Org:
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org:
USDOE
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING
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PLFS: a checkpoint filesystem for parallel applications
conference, January 2009

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