@Article{perez:evaluate, author = {F. Perez and J. Carretero and L. Alonso and P. {De Miguel} and F. Garcia}, title = {Evaluating {ParFiSys}: A high-performance parallel and distributed file system}, journal = {Journal of Systems Architecture}, year = {1997}, month = {May}, volume = {43}, number = {8}, pages = {533--542}, keywords = {parallel I/O, multiprocessor file system, pario-bib}, abstract = {We present an overview of ParFiSys, a coherent parallel file system developed at the UPM to provide I/O services to the GPMIMD machine, an MPP built within the ESPRIT project P-5404. Special emphasis is made on the results obtained during ParFiSys evaluation. They were obtained using several I/O benchmarks (PARKBENCH, IOBENCH, etc.) and several MPP platforms (T800, T9000, etc.) to cover a big spectrum of the ParFiSys features, being specifically oriented to measure throughput for scientific applications I/O patterns. ParFiSys is specially well suited to provide I/O services to scientific applications requiring high I/O bandwidth, to minimize application porting effort, and to exploit the parallelism of generic message-passing multicomputers.} }