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| Paper: |
I/O Performance of AIPS++ |
| Volume: |
216, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems IX |
| Page: |
490 |
| Authors: |
Roberts, D. A.; Crutcher, R. M.; Imeraj, E.; Kemball, A.; Young, W. |
| Abstract: |
We report on a collaborative project to investigate the input/output (I/O) performance of the AIPS++ system with particular emphasis on the the I/O characteristics of our parallel, MPI-based application pimager. The AIPS++ parallel group has been working extensively with the Pablo group of the University of Illinois Computer Science department. The Pablo group has developed an I/O and event tracing library that records the counts and timing of I/O calls in an application program, as well as tools to analyze the output trace records. A graduate student from the Pablo project, working closely with the AIPS++ parallel group, has included the I/O instrumentation calls into the AIPS++ code to allow I/O and event tracing during the execution of any AIPS++ application. The AIPS++ parallel and Pablo groups have carried out several joint experiments using the parallel version of the imager application ( pimager). Pimager does parallel deconvolution of a spectral-line data set using the Clark CLEAN algorithm; parallelism is implemented with the Message Passing Interface (MPI). The experiments were run on a 128-processor SGI Origin 2000 at NCSA. The I/O characteristics of the pimager program from these experiments are presented. |
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