@InProceedings{bjorstad:structure, author = {P. E. Bj{\o}rstad and J. Cook}, title = {Large Scale Structural Analysis On Massively Parallel Computers}, booktitle = {Linear Algebra for Large Scale and Real-Time Applications}, year = {1993}, pages = {3--11}, publisher = {Kluwer Academic Publishers}, note = {ftp from ftp.ii.uib.no in \verb+pub/tech_reports/mpp_sestra.ps.Z+.}, URL = {file://ftp.ii.uib.no/pub/tech_reports/mpp_sestra.ps.Z}, keywords = {parallel I/O, file access pattern, pario-bib}, comment = {A substantial part of this structural-analysis application was involved in I/O, moving substructures in and out of RAM. The Maspar IO-RAM helped a lot, nearly halving the time required. On the Cray, the SSD had an even bigger impact, perhaps 7--12 times faster. Their main conclusion is that caching helped. Most likely this was due to its double-buffering, since they structured the code to read/compute/write in large ``superblocks''.} }