MPI I/O + nfs
Rob Latham
rlatham at plogic.com
Fri Nov 30 11:22:49 PST 2001
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 08:34:02PM -0800, Bill Broadley wrote:
>
> I'm trying to get MPICH-1.2.2.3 MPI I/O + nfs working.
If you want ROMIO ( MPI I/O ), i strongly suggest using pvfs as the
"back end" for your file system. In the few cases i know of where a
customer used nfs as the back end, performance was downright poor ( as
should be expected when you have to turn off all the caching ).
start here: http://parlweb.parl.clemson.edu/pvfs/index.html
==rob
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