This paper is concerned with efficient execution of applications that are composed of chain of sequential data processes, which exchange data through a file system. We focus on pipeline-shared I/O behavior within a single pipeline of processes running on a cluster. We examine several scheduling strategies and experimentally evaluate them for efficient use the Parallel Virtual File System (PVFS) as a common storage pool.
Citation:
Nagavijayalakshmi Vydyanathan, Gaurav Khanna, Tahsin Kurc, Umit Catalyurek, Pete Wyckoff, Joel Saltz, P. Sadayappan, "Use of PVFS for Efficient Execution of Jobs with Pipeline-Shared I/O," grid, pp.235-242, Fifth IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing (GRID'04), 2004