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Title: LLNL's Parallel I/O Testing Tools and Techniques for ASC Parallel File Systems

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OSTI ID:15014077

Livermore Computing is an early and aggressive adopter of parallel file systems including, for example, GPFS from IBM and Lustre for our present Linux systems. As such, we have acquired more than our share of battle scars from encountering bugs in 'bleeding edge' file systems that we have pressed into production to serve our customers' massive I/O requirements. A major role of the Scalable I/O Project is to detect errors before our end users do. In order to do this, we have developed highly parallel test codes to stress and probe potentially weak areas of file system behavior. This paper describes those test programs and how we make use of them.

Research Organization:
Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-48
OSTI ID:
15014077
Report Number(s):
UCRL-CONF-203489; TRN: US200807%%858
Resource Relation:
Conference: Presented at: 2004 IEEE Cluster Computing Conference, San Diego, CA, United States, Sep 20 - Sep 23, 2004
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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