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The Globus eXtensible Input/Output System (XIO): A Protocol Independent IO System for the Grid
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
In distributed heterogeneous Grid environments the protocols used to exchange bits are crucial. As researchers work hard to discover the best new protocol for the Grid, application developers...
Provided by Argonne National Laboratory
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White Papers
Impact of Network Sharing in Multi-Core Architectures
May 22, 2007, 12:00am PDT
As commodity components continue to dominate the realm of high-end computing, two hardware trends have emerged as major contributors high-speed networking technologies and multi-core...
Provided by Argonne National Laboratory
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White Papers
Making a Case for Proactive Flow Control in Optical Circuit-Switched Networks
August 21, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Optical circuit-switched networks such as National LambdaRail (NLR) offer dedicated bandwidth to support large-scale bulk data transfer. Though a dedicated circuit-switched network eliminates...
Provided by Argonne National Laboratory
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Whitepapers
LHC Databases on the Grid: Achievements and Open Issues
July 3, 2010, 12:00am PDT
To extract physics results from the recorded data, the LHC experiments are using Grid computing infrastructure. The event data processing on the Grid requires scalable access to non-event data...
Provided by Argonne National Laboratory
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Whitepapers
HEP Data Analysis Using jHepWork and Java
February 9, 2009, 12:00am PST
A role of Java in High-Energy Physics (HEP) and recent progress in development of a platform-independent data-analysis framework, jHepWork, is discussed. The framework produces professional...
Provided by Argonne National Laboratory
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Whitepapers
A Case for Optimistic Coordination in HPC Storage Systems
November 1, 2012, 12:00am PDT
High-Performance Computing (HPC) storage systems rely on access coordination to ensure that concurrent updates do not produce incoherent results. HPC storage systems typically employ pessimistic...
Provided by Argonne National Laboratory
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Whitepapers
An Evolutionary Path to Object Storage Access
November 7, 2012, 12:00am PST
High-Performance Computing (HPC) storage systems typically consist of an object storage system that is accessed via the POSIX file interface. However, rapid increases in system scales and storage...
Provided by Argonne National Laboratory
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White Papers
Topology-Aware I/O Caching for Shared Storage Systems
August 13, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The main contribution of this paper is a topology-aware storage caching scheme for parallel architectures. In a parallel system with multiple storage caches, these caches form a shared cache...
Provided by Argonne National Laboratory
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White Papers
Porting the MG-RAST Metagenomic Data Analysis Pipeline to the Cloud
May 26, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Computational biology applications typically favor a local, cluster-based, integrated computational platform. The authors present a lessons learned report for scaling up a metagenomics application...
Provided by Argonne National Laboratory
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White Papers
Developing the Web100 Based Network Diagnostic Tool (NDT)
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Finding and fixing a network performance or configuration problem is a difficult and complex task. It requires time, energy, and expertise to track down problems and it is difficult for users to...
Provided by Argonne National Laboratory
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White Papers
24/7 Characterization of Petascale I/O Workloads
August 3, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Developing and tuning computational science applications to run on extreme scale systems are increasingly complicated processes. Challenges such as managing memory access and tuning...
Provided by Argonne National Laboratory
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Whitepapers
DMA-Assisted, Intranode Communication in GPU Accelerated Systems
May 27, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Accelerator awareness has become a pressing issue in data movement models, such as MPI, because of the rapid deployment of systems that utilize accelerators. In the authors' previous work, they...
Provided by Argonne National Laboratory
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Whitepapers
MPI-ACC: An Integrated and Extensible Approach to Data Movement in Accelerator-Based Systems
May 27, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Data movement in high-performance computing systems accelerated by Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) remains a challenging problem. Data communication in popular parallel programming models, such...
Provided by Argonne National Laboratory
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Whitepapers
Supporting the Global Arrays PGAS Model Using MPI One-Sided Communication
February 7, 2012, 12:00am PST
The industry-standard Message Passing Interface (MPI) provides one-sided communication functionality and is available on virtually every parallel computing system. However, it is believed that...
Provided by Argonne National Laboratory
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Whitepapers
Transparent Accelerator Migration in a Virtualized GPU Environment
May 30, 2012, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents a framework to support transparent, live migration of virtual GPU accelerators in a virtualized execution environment. Migration is a critical capability in such environments...
Provided by Argonne National Laboratory
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Whitepapers
VOCL: An Optimized Environment for Transparent Virtualization of Graphics Processing Units
May 30, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have been widely used for general-purpose computation acceleration. However, cur-rent programming models such as CUDA and OpenCL can support GPUs only on the local...
Provided by Argonne National Laboratory
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Whitepapers
Building Algorithmically Nonstop Fault Tolerant MPI Programs
September 22, 2011, 12:00am PDT
With the growing scale of High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems, today and more so tomorrow, faults are a norm rather than an exception. HPC applications typically tolerate fail-stop failures...
Provided by Argonne National Laboratory
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Whitepapers
RDMA Capable IWARP Over Datagrams
January 31, 2011, 12:00am PST
iWARP is a state of the art high-speed connection-based RDMA networking technology for Ethernet networks to provide InfiniBand-like zero-copy and one-sided communication capabilities over...
Provided by Argonne National Laboratory
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Whitepapers
IWARP Redefined: Scalable Connectionless Communication Over High-Speed Ethernet
August 16, 2010, 12:00am PDT
iWARP represents the leading edge of high performance Ethernet technologies. By utilizing an asynchronous communication model, iWARP brings the advantages of OS bypass and RDMA technology to...
Provided by Argonne National Laboratory
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Whitepapers
Fault-Tolerant Communication Runtime Support for Data-Centric Programming Models
January 9, 2011, 12:00am PST
The largest supercomputers in the world today consist of hundreds of thousands of processing cores and many more other hardware components. At such scales, hardware faults are a commonplace,...
Provided by Argonne National Laboratory
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Whitepapers
Power and Performance Characterization of Computational Kernels on the GPU
January 9, 2011, 12:00am PST
Now-a-days Graphic Processing Units (GPU) are gaining increasing popularity in High Performance Computing (HPC). While modern GPUs can offer much more computational power than CPUs, they also...
Provided by Argonne National Laboratory
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Whitepapers
A Study of Hardware Assisted IP Over InfiniBand and Its Impact on Enterprise Data Center Performance
January 28, 2010, 12:00am PST
High-performance sockets implementations such as the Sockets Direct Protocol (SDP) have traditionally showed major performance advantages compared to the TCP/IP stack over InfiniBand (IPoIB)....
Provided by Argonne National Laboratory
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Whitepapers
Understanding Network Saturation Behavior on Large-Scale Blue Gene/P Systems
October 8, 2009, 12:00am PDT
As researchers continue to architect massive-scale systems, it is becoming clear that these systems will utilize a significant amount of shared hardware between processing units. Systems such as...
Provided by Argonne National Laboratory
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Whitepapers
Evaluation of ConnectX Virtual Protocol Interconnect for Data Centers
September 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
With the emergence of new technologies such as Virtual Protocol Interconnect (VPI) for the modern data center, the separation between commodity networking technology and high-performance...
Provided by Argonne National Laboratory
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Whitepapers
Improving Resource Availability by Relaxing Network Allocation Constraints on Blue Gene/P
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
High-End Computing (HEC) systems have passed the peta-flop barrier and continue to move toward the next frontier of exascale computing. As companies and research institutes continue to work toward...
Provided by Argonne National Laboratory
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Whitepapers
Semantics-Based Distributed I/O With the ParaMEDIC Framework
April 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Many large-scale applications simultaneously rely on multiple resources for efficient execution. For example, such applications may require both large compute and storage resources; however, very...
Provided by Argonne National Laboratory
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Whitepapers
An Evolutionary Path to Object Storage Access
November 7, 2012, 12:00am PST
High-Performance Computing (HPC) storage systems typically consist of an object storage system that is accessed via the POSIX file interface. However, rapid increases in system scales and storage...
Provided by Argonne National Laboratory
-
Whitepapers
A Case for Optimistic Coordination in HPC Storage Systems
November 1, 2012, 12:00am PDT
High-Performance Computing (HPC) storage systems rely on access coordination to ensure that concurrent updates do not produce incoherent results. HPC storage systems typically employ pessimistic...
Provided by Argonne National Laboratory
-
Whitepapers
HEP Data Analysis Using jHepWork and Java
February 9, 2009, 12:00am PST
A role of Java in High-Energy Physics (HEP) and recent progress in development of a platform-independent data-analysis framework, jHepWork, is discussed. The framework produces professional...
Provided by Argonne National Laboratory
-
Whitepapers
LHC Databases on the Grid: Achievements and Open Issues
July 3, 2010, 12:00am PDT
To extract physics results from the recorded data, the LHC experiments are using Grid computing infrastructure. The event data processing on the Grid requires scalable access to non-event data...
Provided by Argonne National Laboratory
-
Whitepapers
Semantics-Based Distributed I/O With the ParaMEDIC Framework
April 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Many large-scale applications simultaneously rely on multiple resources for efficient execution. For example, such applications may require both large compute and storage resources; however, very...
Provided by Argonne National Laboratory
-
Whitepapers
Improving Resource Availability by Relaxing Network Allocation Constraints on Blue Gene/P
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
High-End Computing (HEC) systems have passed the peta-flop barrier and continue to move toward the next frontier of exascale computing. As companies and research institutes continue to work toward...
Provided by Argonne National Laboratory
-
Whitepapers
Evaluation of ConnectX Virtual Protocol Interconnect for Data Centers
September 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
With the emergence of new technologies such as Virtual Protocol Interconnect (VPI) for the modern data center, the separation between commodity networking technology and high-performance...
Provided by Argonne National Laboratory
-
Whitepapers
Understanding Network Saturation Behavior on Large-Scale Blue Gene/P Systems
October 8, 2009, 12:00am PDT
As researchers continue to architect massive-scale systems, it is becoming clear that these systems will utilize a significant amount of shared hardware between processing units. Systems such as...
Provided by Argonne National Laboratory
-
Whitepapers
A Study of Hardware Assisted IP Over InfiniBand and Its Impact on Enterprise Data Center Performance
January 28, 2010, 12:00am PST
High-performance sockets implementations such as the Sockets Direct Protocol (SDP) have traditionally showed major performance advantages compared to the TCP/IP stack over InfiniBand (IPoIB)....
Provided by Argonne National Laboratory
-
Whitepapers
Power and Performance Characterization of Computational Kernels on the GPU
January 9, 2011, 12:00am PST
Now-a-days Graphic Processing Units (GPU) are gaining increasing popularity in High Performance Computing (HPC). While modern GPUs can offer much more computational power than CPUs, they also...
Provided by Argonne National Laboratory
-
Whitepapers
Fault-Tolerant Communication Runtime Support for Data-Centric Programming Models
January 9, 2011, 12:00am PST
The largest supercomputers in the world today consist of hundreds of thousands of processing cores and many more other hardware components. At such scales, hardware faults are a commonplace,...
Provided by Argonne National Laboratory
-
Whitepapers
IWARP Redefined: Scalable Connectionless Communication Over High-Speed Ethernet
August 16, 2010, 12:00am PDT
iWARP represents the leading edge of high performance Ethernet technologies. By utilizing an asynchronous communication model, iWARP brings the advantages of OS bypass and RDMA technology to...
Provided by Argonne National Laboratory
-
Whitepapers
RDMA Capable IWARP Over Datagrams
January 31, 2011, 12:00am PST
iWARP is a state of the art high-speed connection-based RDMA networking technology for Ethernet networks to provide InfiniBand-like zero-copy and one-sided communication capabilities over...
Provided by Argonne National Laboratory
-
Whitepapers
Building Algorithmically Nonstop Fault Tolerant MPI Programs
September 22, 2011, 12:00am PDT
With the growing scale of High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems, today and more so tomorrow, faults are a norm rather than an exception. HPC applications typically tolerate fail-stop failures...
Provided by Argonne National Laboratory
-
Whitepapers
VOCL: An Optimized Environment for Transparent Virtualization of Graphics Processing Units
May 30, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have been widely used for general-purpose computation acceleration. However, cur-rent programming models such as CUDA and OpenCL can support GPUs only on the local...
Provided by Argonne National Laboratory
-
Whitepapers
Transparent Accelerator Migration in a Virtualized GPU Environment
May 30, 2012, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents a framework to support transparent, live migration of virtual GPU accelerators in a virtualized execution environment. Migration is a critical capability in such environments...
Provided by Argonne National Laboratory
-
Whitepapers
Supporting the Global Arrays PGAS Model Using MPI One-Sided Communication
February 7, 2012, 12:00am PST
The industry-standard Message Passing Interface (MPI) provides one-sided communication functionality and is available on virtually every parallel computing system. However, it is believed that...
Provided by Argonne National Laboratory
-
Whitepapers
MPI-ACC: An Integrated and Extensible Approach to Data Movement in Accelerator-Based Systems
May 27, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Data movement in high-performance computing systems accelerated by Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) remains a challenging problem. Data communication in popular parallel programming models, such...
Provided by Argonne National Laboratory
-
Whitepapers
DMA-Assisted, Intranode Communication in GPU Accelerated Systems
May 27, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Accelerator awareness has become a pressing issue in data movement models, such as MPI, because of the rapid deployment of systems that utilize accelerators. In the authors' previous work, they...
Provided by Argonne National Laboratory
-
White Papers
24/7 Characterization of Petascale I/O Workloads
August 3, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Developing and tuning computational science applications to run on extreme scale systems are increasingly complicated processes. Challenges such as managing memory access and tuning...
Provided by Argonne National Laboratory
-
White Papers
Porting the MG-RAST Metagenomic Data Analysis Pipeline to the Cloud
May 26, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Computational biology applications typically favor a local, cluster-based, integrated computational platform. The authors present a lessons learned report for scaling up a metagenomics application...
Provided by Argonne National Laboratory
-
White Papers
Topology-Aware I/O Caching for Shared Storage Systems
August 13, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The main contribution of this paper is a topology-aware storage caching scheme for parallel architectures. In a parallel system with multiple storage caches, these caches form a shared cache...
Provided by Argonne National Laboratory
-
White Papers
Making a Case for Proactive Flow Control in Optical Circuit-Switched Networks
August 21, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Optical circuit-switched networks such as National LambdaRail (NLR) offer dedicated bandwidth to support large-scale bulk data transfer. Though a dedicated circuit-switched network eliminates...
Provided by Argonne National Laboratory
-
White Papers
Impact of Network Sharing in Multi-Core Architectures
May 22, 2007, 12:00am PDT
As commodity components continue to dominate the realm of high-end computing, two hardware trends have emerged as major contributors high-speed networking technologies and multi-core...
Provided by Argonne National Laboratory
-
White Papers
The Globus eXtensible Input/Output System (XIO): A Protocol Independent IO System for the Grid
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
In distributed heterogeneous Grid environments the protocols used to exchange bits are crucial. As researchers work hard to discover the best new protocol for the Grid, application developers...
Provided by Argonne National Laboratory
-
White Papers
Developing the Web100 Based Network Diagnostic Tool (NDT)
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Finding and fixing a network performance or configuration problem is a difficult and complex task. It requires time, energy, and expertise to track down problems and it is difficult for users to...
Provided by Argonne National Laboratory
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