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Can a File System Virtualize Processors?
Category: Software and Web Development, Desktops, Laptops and OS, Servers and Server OS
Tags: applications
Overview Supercomputers comprise more and more processors and these processors are increasingly heterogeneous, with differing performance characteristics. The conventional programming models assume that all nodes run in lockstep. Thus, applications run at the speed of the least powerful processor. This paper introduces DesyncFS, a new programming model based on the block abstraction of traditional file systems. It virtualizes the performance characteristics of processors; this allows their heterogeneity to be hidden. The paper shows that DesyncFS allows cluster throughput to scale with average processor throughput instead of being limited by the slowest processor.
- Publisher
- Association for Computing Machinery
- File Format
- Date Published
- May 8, 2007
- Format
- White Papers
- Topics
- Supercomputers, Processors, Programming Languages
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