MPI-2 I/O

The MPI-2 specification included a new chapter for parallel I/O (MPI-I/O). This project used the MPI-I/O specification to produce a portable parallel I/O test suite to measure the performance of parallel I/O subsystems.

Here are some of the reports.

A parallel I/O test suite

This is a paper given at the EuroPVM/MPI 1998 conference.
David Lancaster, Cliff Addision, Tim Oliver. September 1998.

User Guide for the Parallel Input/Ouput Test Suite

This is a User Guide to the parallel I/O test suite.
David Lancaster. February 1998.

Specification of the Parallel Input/Ouput Test Suite

This is the specification of the parallel I/O test suite.
David Lancaster. August 1997.

The I/O test suite sources are available for download.

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