A study of I/O behavior of Perfect benchmarks on a multiprocessor Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • The I/O behavior of some scientific applications, a subset of Perfect benchmarks, executing on a multiprocessor is studied. The aim of this study is to explore the various patterns of I/O access of large scientific applications and to understand the impact of this observed behavior on the I/O subsystem architecture. I/O behavior of the program is characterized by the demands it imposes on the I/O subsystem. It is observed that implicit I/O or paging is not a major problem for the applications considered and the I/O problem is mainly manifest in the explicit I/O done in the program. Various characteristics of I/O accesses are studied, and their impact on architecture design is discussed.

name of conference

  • [1990] Proceedings. The 17th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture

published proceedings

  • ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News

author list (cited authors)

  • Reddy, A., & Banerjee, P.

citation count

  • 11

complete list of authors

  • Reddy, ALN||Banerjee, P

editor list (cited editors)

  • Baer, J., Snyder, L., & Goodman, J. R.

publication date

  • January 1990