Newsgroups: comp.parallel,comp.parallel.mpi,comp.parallel.pvm
From: lamberts@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Stefan Lamberts)
Subject: Announcing: PFSLib (Parallel I/O on workstations)
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 17:46:04 GMT
Message-ID: <49kqks$lhn@sunsystem5.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>


                       Announcing

         PFSLib (Parallel I/O on workstations)

PFSLib offers parallel access to files for a parallel application
running on a cluster of workstations.  It is intended but not
restricted to be used in message passing applications based on PVM,
NXLib, MPI, and other.

As Intel's parallel file system PFS, PFSLib offers the access modes
M_UNIX, M_LOG, M_SYNC, M_RECORD, and M_GLOBAL.  With asynchronous I/O
operations it is possible to hide I/O latencies by overlapping I/O and
computation.

See the Users' Guide mentioned below for more information.

We are now releasing Version V1_0 of the package under the terms of
the GNU Library General Public License and the GNU General Public
License.

PFSLib was tested and runs on Solaris 2.x, SunOs 4.1.x, HP-UX 9.x, AIX
3.2, and Linux 1.2.x heterogeneously.  It should run on other Unix
platforms, too.

The sources of the library and a Users' Guide are available via
anonymous ftp from ftpbode.informatik.tu-muenchen.de (131.159.0.156).
The related files are located in the PFSlib directory.

To establish personal contacts to the authors please use the 
pfslib@informatik.tu-muenchen.de email address.

The development of PFSLib is embedded into research projects of the
parallel processing group at the chair of Prof. Bode at Technische
Universitaet Muenchen. Please refer to
       http://wwwbode.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/
            parallelrechner/tools/overview.html
and
       http://wwwbode.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/
            ~wismuell/publications/sup95/article.html
for more details.


Stefan Lamberts

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