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	SCHEDULE: NOV 11-17, 2006 Parallel I/O in Practice Session: M02 Event Type: Tutorial Time: 8:30am - 5:00pm Presenter(s): Robert Ross, Rajeev Thakur, William Loewe, Robert Latham Location: 22 Abstract: Effectively using I/O resources on HPC machines is a black art. The purpose of this tutorial is to shed light on the state-of-the-art in parallel I/O and to provide the knowledge necessary for attendees to best leverage the I/O resources available to them. We cover the entire I/O software stack from parallel file systems at the lowest layer, to intermediate layers (such as MPI-IO), and finally high-level I/O libraries (such as HDF-5). The emphasis is not just on how to use these layers, but ways to use them that result in high performance. This tutorial first discusses parallel file systems (PFSs). We cover general concepts and examine three examples: GPFS, Lustre, and PVFS2. Next we examine the upper layers of the I/O stack, covering four interfaces: POSIX I/O, MPI-IO, Parallel netCDF, and HDF5. We discuss interface features, show code examples, and describe how application calls translate into PFS operations. Chair/ Presenter Details: Robert Ross Argonne National Laboratory Rajeev Thakur Argonne National Laboratory William Loewe Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Robert Latham Argonne National Laboratory
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