Department of Computer Science at UH

University of Houston

Department of Computer Science

In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of
Doctor of Philosophy

Kshitij Mehta

Will defend his dissertation


Parallel I/O for Shared Memory Applications

Abstract

I/O is a major time-limiting factor in high performance computing (HPC) applications. The combined effects of hard drive latency and bandwidth make I/O the slowest operation in a system. A lot of work has been done in the field of parallel I/O for scientific computing, specially for distributed memory machines. As shared memory systems gain popularity with the increasing number of cores in a node, implementing efficient parallel I/O for shared memory machines has become an important challenge. Currently, popular shared memory programming models like OpenMP do not provide a framework for implementing parallel I/O. This thesis provides a parallel I/O specification for shared memory architecture. In particular, focus has been laid on implementing parallel I/O for OpenMP. In the process, the characteristics of shared memory machines and the behaviour of parallel file systems have been studied and an effort has been made to optimize parallel I/O. Also, this research provides insights into semantic analysis of data using the HDF5 technology suite.

 

Date: Thursday, April 18, 2013
Time: 9:00 AM
Place: 501D-PGH

Faculty, students, and the general public are invited.
Advisor: Dr. Edgar Gabriel