Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi,comp.parallel.pvm
From: hinker@cip.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Stefan Hinker)
Subject: Re: Thinking about parallel I/O
Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany
Date: 11 Jul 1995 08:24:50 GMT
Message-ID: <3ttcgi$uh8@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>

David M. Beazley (dmb@bifrost.Lanl.GOV) wrote:

: Having spent some time working on a message-passing application for the CM-5, T3D and
: other machines, one of the biggest problems that has come up has been the
: apparent nonstandardization of I/O on different machines.   My solution to this problem,
[stuff deleted...]
: others have solved this problem within the PVM/MPI environment.  If you'd like to share
: your experience, please respond.  If there's interest, I'll post a summary of responses later.

Sounds interesting.  However, to me, it is not quite clear what exactly you
mean by parallel I/O.  I could right now think of several different things,
some of which I have had problems with myself (mostly collecting debug-output
from different tasks, for example (which is, of course, somewhat easier with
xpvm or such, but there could be other solutions...)).  Given some example
problems or definitions of "parallel I/O", I would look forward to the
discussion here.

Greetings,
Stefan


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