Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
2003
Publication Title
International Conference on Parallel Processing
Publisher Name
IEEE Computer Society
Abstract
For concurrent I/O operations, atomicity defines the results in the overlapping file regions simultaneously read/written by requesting processes. Atomicity has been well studied at the file system level, such as POSIX standard. In this paper, we investigate the problems arising from the implementation of MPI atomicity for concurrent overlapping write access and provide a few programming solutions. Since the MPI definition of atomicity differs from the POSIX one, an implementation that simply relies on the POSIX file systems does not guarantee correct MPI semantics. To have a correct implementation of atomic I/O in MPI, we examine the efficiency of three approaches: 1) file locking, 2) graph-coloring, and 3) process-rank ordering. Performance complexity for these methods are analyzed and their experimental results are presented for file systems including NFS, SGI’s XFS, and IBM’s GPFS.
Recommended Citation
W. Liao et al., “Scalable Implementations of MPI Atomicity for Concurrent Overlapping I/O,” in International Conference on Parallel Processing, 2003.
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Copyright © 2003 Wei-keng Liao, Alok Choudhary, Kenin Coloma, George K. Thiruvathukal, Lee Ward, Eric Russell, and Neil Pundit
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