Wright, Steven A., Pennycook, Simon J., Hammond, Simon D. and Jarvis, Stephen A. (2011) RIOT : a parallel input/output tracer. In: Proceedings of the UK Performance Engineering Workshop (UKPEW'11), Bradford, United Kingdom, 7-8 July, 2011 (Unpublished)

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Abstract

Input/output (I/O) operations can represent a significant proportion of the run-time when large scientific applications are run in parallel. Although there have been advances in the form of file-format libraries, file-system design and I/O hardware, a growing divergence exists between the performance of parallel file-systems and compute processing rates. The effect is often a bottleneck when any form of file-system interaction is required. In this paper we present RIOT – an input/output tracing toolkit being developed at the University of Warwick for dynamic attachment to parallel applications. The two-stage tracing process includes a lightweight library to record I/O events and an in-depth post-execution analysis tool to extract performance metrics such as MPI-IO bandwidth, effective POSIX/file-system bandwidth, duration of individual or aggregated time spent in obtaining or releasing file locks and temporal information relating to parallel file activity. We present a case study on the use of RIOT for three standard industry I/O benchmarks: the BT-IO micro-application from NASA’s Parallel Benchmark suite, FLASH-IO, a benchmark which replicates the check-pointing operations of the FLASH thermonuclear star modelling code and IOR, an industry standard I/O benchmark using HDF-5 and MPI-IO. Furthermore, we utilise RIOT to assess these codes when running with the Parallel Log-structured File System (PLFS) middleware developed by the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Item Type:	Conference Item (Paper)
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Electronic computers. Computer science. Computer software
Divisions:	Faculty of Science > Computer Science
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Parallel processing (Electronic computers), File processing (Computer science)
Official Date:	8 July 2011
Dates:	Date Event 8 July 2011 Available
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Unpublished
Conference Paper Type:	Paper
Title of Event:	Proceedings of the UK Performance Engineering Workshop (UKPEW'11)
Type of Event:	Workshop
Location of Event:	Bradford, United Kingdom
Date(s) of Event:	7-8 July, 2011

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