This paper is a report on experiences in benchmarking I/O performance on leading computational facilities on the NSF TeraGrid network with a large scale scientific application. Instead of focusing only on the raw file I/O bandwidth provided by different machine architectures, the I/O performance and scalability of the computational tools and libraries that are used in current production simulations are tested as a whole, however with focus mostly on bulk transfers. It is seen that the I/O performance of our production code scales very well, but is limited by the I/O system itself at some point. This limitation occurs at a low percentage of the computational size of the machines, which shows that at least for the application used for this paper the I/O system can be an important limiting factor in scaling up to the full size of the machine. © 2010 Springer-Verlag.
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Löffler, F., Tao, J., Allen, G., & Schnetter, E. (2010). Benchmarking parallel I/O performance for a large scale scientific application on the TeraGrid. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 5938 LNCS, pp. 272–279). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11842-5_37
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