Reading List for CMSC 811 (Fall 1995)

The date before each paper list is the date on which it was assigned.

6 Sep 1995

This paper provides a general overview of parallel I/O and the directions that current research is exploring. It serves as a good introduction to the field.

Juan Miguel del Rosario and Alok Choudhary. "High Performance I/O for Parallel Computers: Problems and Prospects," IEEE Computer 27(3), March 1994, pages 59 - 68.

11 Sep 1995

The three papers for this week describe scientific applications that place high demands on computers, including their I/O systems. They provide good background material on the problems for which high-performance computing systems and high speed, large capacity I/O systems are necessary.

James F. Decker, David B. Nelson, and Donald M. Austin. "Large-Scale Problems and Supercomputing in the Department of Energy," Procceedings of the IEEE 77(7), July 1989, pages 1020 - 1037.
Victor L. Peterson, John Kim, Terry L. Holst, George S. Dieiwert, David M. Cooper, Andrew B. Watson, and F. Ron Bailey. Supercomputer Requirements for Selected Disciplines Important to Aerospace," Procceedings of the IEEE 77(7), July 1989, pages 1038 - 1055.
Milton Halem. "Scientific Computing Challenges Arising From Space-Borne Observations," Procceedings of the IEEE 77(7), July 1989, pages 1061 - 1091.

18 Sep 1995

Ethan L. Miller and Randy H. Katz. "Input/Output Behavior of Supercomputing Applications," Supercomputing '91, pages 567 - 576.
Barbara K. Pasquale and George C. Polyzos. "Dynamic I/O Characterization of I/O Intensive Scientific Applications," Supercomputing '94, pages 660 - 669.

20 Sep 1995

Due: Please hand in a one page description of your proposed project along with the name(s) of the people working on the project.

David Kotz and Nils Nieuwejaar. "Dynamic File-Access Characteristics of a Production Parallel Scientific Workload," Supercomputing '94, pages 640 - 649.

25 Sep 1995: Class will not meet (Rosh Hashanah)

27 Sep 1995

Dror G. Feitelson, Peter F. Corbett, Sandra J. Baylor, and Yarsun Hsu. "Parallel I/O Subsystems in Massively Parallel Supercomputers, " IEEE Parallel & Distributed Technology, Fall 1995, pages 33 - 47.

2 Oct 1995

Peter M. Chen, Edward K. Lee, Garth A. Gibson, Randy H. Katz, David A. Patterson, "RAID: High-Performance, Reliable Secondary Storage," ACM Computing Surveys, June 1994, pp. 145-185.
Pei Cao, Swee Boon Lim, Shivakumar Venkataraman, and John Wilkes, "The TickerTAIP parallel RAID architecture," Proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Computer Architecture, May 1993, pp. 52-63.

4 Oct 1995: Class will not meet (Yom Kippur)

9 Oct 1995

The paper assigned today discusses the Vesta file system designed at IBM.

Peter F. Corbett, Dror G. Feitelson, Jean-Pierre Prost, and Sandra Johnson Baylor, "Parallel Access to Files in the Vesta File System," Proceedings of Supercomputing '93, November 1993, pp. 472-481.

11 Oct 1995

Another paper on Vesta.

Peter F. Corbett, Sandra Johnson Baylor, and Dror G. Feitelson, "Overview of the Vesta Parallel File System," Proceedings of the Workshop on Parallel I/O, International Parallel Processing Symposium, April 1993, pp. 1-16.

16 Oct 1995

For the next few weeks, we'll be reading and discussing several efforts to build parallel file systems. These will be in somewhat reverse chronological order; this will allow us to spend more time on the recent research in the area while still covering the history of the field (those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it...).

Alok Choudhary, Rajesh Bordawekar, Michael Harry, Rakesh Krishnaiyer, Ravi Ponnusamy, Tarvinder Singh, and Rajeev Thakur, "PASSION: Parallel and Scalable Software for Input-Output," NPAC Technical Report SCCS-6336, Syracuse University, September 1994.

18 Oct 1995

Due: A design plan for your project, and a progress report detailing what you've already done. This need not be a long report; a page or two is sufficient. The checkpoint is to insure that you're making progress on the project.

23 Oct 1995

Go back to the main CMSC 811 page.

Ethan Miller (elm@cs.umbc.edu)