@InProceedings{vilayannur:posix-pvfs,
  author = {Murali Vilayannur and Robert B. Ross and Philip H. Carns and Rajeev
  Thakur and Anand Sivasubramaniam},
  title = {On the performance of the POSIX I/O interface to PVFS},
  booktitle = {12th Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and
  Network-Based Processing (PDP'04)},
  year = {2004},
  month = {February},
  pages = {332 -- 339},
  institution = {Penn State Univ, Dept Comp Sci \& Engn, University Pk, PA
  16802 USA},
  publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press},
  copyright = {(c)2004 Institute for Scientific Information, Inc.},
  address = {Coruna, Spain},
  URL =
  {http://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/pdp/2004/2083/00/20830332abs.htm},
  keywords = {posix I/O interface, performance, PVFS, parallel file system,
  pario-bib},
  abstract = {The ever-increasing gap in performance between CPU/memory
  technologies and the I/O subsystem (disks, I/O buses) in modern workstations
  has exacerbated the I/O bottlenecks inherent in applications that access
  large disk resident data sets. A common technique to alleviate the I/O
  bottlenecks on clusters of workstations, is the use of parallel file systems.
  One such parallel file system is the Parallel Virtual File System (PVFS),
  which is a freely available tool to achieve high-performance I/O on
  Linux-based clusters. In this paper we describe the performance and
  scalability of the UNIX I/O interface to PVFS. To illustrate the performance,
  we present experimental results using Bonnie++, a commonly used file system
  benchmark to test file system throughput; a synthetic parallel I/O
  applicationfor calculating aggregate read and write bandwidths; and a
  synthetic benchmark which calculates the time taken to untar the Linux kernel
  source tree to measure performance of a large number of small file
  operations. We obtained aggregate read and write bandwidths as high as 550
  MB/s with a Myrinet-based network and 160MB/s with fast Ethernet.}
}