Appeared in Proc. of the 6th Symposium on the Frontiers of Massively Parallel Computation, October 1996, pp. 180-187. © 1996 IEEE.

An Abstract-Device Interface for Implementing Portable Parallel-I/O Interfaces

Rajeev Thakur, William Gropp, Ewing Lusk

Mathematics and Computer Science Division
Argonne National Laboratory
9700 S. Cass Avenue
Argonne, IL 60439, USA
{thakur, gropp, lusk} @mcs.anl.gov

• Abstract
• Introduction
• The ADIO Concept
• ADIO Design
  • Open and Close
  • Contiguous Reads and Writes
  • Noncontiguous Reads and Writes
  • Nonblocking Reads and Writes
  • Collective Reads and Writes
  • Seek
  • Test and Wait
  • File Control
  • Miscellaneous
• Implementation
  • Implementing an API on Top of ADIO
    • MPI-IO
    • Intel PFS
    • IBM PIOFS
    • PASSION and Panda
  • Implementing ADIO on a File System
    • ADIO on PFS
    • ADIO on PIOFS
    • ADIO on Unix and NFS
  • Current Status of Implementation
• Performance
  • Test Programs
  • Production Application
• Conclusions and Future Work
• Acknowledgments
• References
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