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AUTHOR
Federico Padua
Deduplication Potential of HPC Applications’ Checkpoints
HPC systems contain an increasing number of components, decreasing the mean time between failures. Checkpoint mechanisms help to overcome such failures for long-running applications. A viable solution to remove the resulting pressure from the I/O backends is to deduplicate the checkpoints. However, there is little knowledge about the potential to save I/Os for HPC applications by using deduplication within the checkpointing process. In this paper, we perform a broad study about the deduplication behavior of HPC application checkpointing and its impact on system design.
MERCURY: A Transparent Guided I/O Framework for High Performance I/O Stacks
The performance gap between processors and I/O represents a serious scalability limitation for applications running on computing clusters. Parallel file systems often provide mechanisms that allow programmers to disclose their I/O pattern knowledge to the lower layers of the I/O stack through a hints API. This information can be used by the file system to boost the application performance. Unfortunately, programmers rarely make use of these features, missing the opportunity to exploit the full potential of the storage system. In this paper we propose MERCURY, a transparent guided I/O framework able to optimize file I/O patterns in scientific applications, allowing users to control the I/O b…
POSTER: Optimizing scientific file I/O patterns using advice based knowledge
Before us, other works have used data prefetching to boost applications performance [1]–[8]. Our approach differs from these works since we do not rely on precise I/O pattern information to predict and prefetch every chunck of data in advance. Instead we use data prefetching to group many small requests in a few big ones, improving applications performance and utilization of the whole storage system. Moreover, we provide the infrastructure that enables users to access file system specific interfaces for guided I/O without modifying applications and hiding the intrinsic complexity that such interfaces introduce.