Parallel I/O Archive

This archive dates from 2011 (with most content from prior to 2005) and is no longer updated. It is here for archival reference.

Key resources:

• What's new
• People in the field
• Research Projects
• Parallel I/O bibliography
• Dartmouth research on Parallel I/O
• Dictionary on Parallel Input/Output, by Heinz Stockinger, February 1998. 223 pages. (Postscript.gz) (PDF)
• Dealing with Massive Data: from Parallel I/O to Grid I/O, by Rainer Hubovsky and Florian Kunz, January 2004. 302 pages. Similar to Heinz Stockinger's Dictionary on Parallel I/O. (PDF)
• The Storage Networking Industry Association maintains the World Wide Repository for I/O Traces, Tools and Analysis

Journals that publish parallel I/O articles:

• Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC)
• IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS)
• ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS)

Example programs and benchmark codes

Anecdotes about parallel I/O

Useful software

• Ganger/Worthington/Patt disk simulator
• Kotz's disk simulator

Conferences focused on parallel I/O

• Dartmouth Institute for Advanced Graduate Studies (DAGS) 1993 (BibTeX file)
• IOPADS '95
• IOPADS '96
• IOPADS '97
• IOPADS '95-96-97 BibTeX
• IOPADS 1995-97 papers as ps.gz files
• Other past events