ISC17 Understanding and Improving I/O Performance

This repository contains the slides and exercises for the ISC17 tutorial on understanding and improving I/O performance.

This contains material contributed from a number of authors and organsations, including:

Adrian Jackson, EPCC,
Tomislav Šubic, ARCTUR
Muhammad Sarim Zafar, TU Dresden
Keeran Barabazon, ARM/Allinea

Timetable

09.00 Large scale computing system I/O hardware and software libraries
09.45 Systemwide performance and implications
11.00 Break
11.30 Systemwide data and benchmarking practical
12.15 Parallel I/O strategies and libraries
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Parallel I/O practical
15.00 Profiling application I/O
16.00 Break
16.30 Hands on Profiling
17.30 Summary and discussion

Running

Host name is: login.archer.ac.uk
To submit use: qsub -R4578901 submissionscript.pbs ** Replace submissionscript.pbs with the sensible script
Do everything from the work filesystem rather than home, i.e. cd /work/d131/d131/ngioXX