PERFORMANCE

Type of Work	Item	Explanation	Documentation
Research	Middleware caching optimizations	Argonne and Northwestern U. are doing very interesting work in the area of middleware and file system optimizations. It should be possible to exploit this work in HDF5 to improve I/O on high end systems.	"Scalable I/O Middleware and File System Optimizations for High-Performance Computing," http://institute.lanl.gov/hec-fsio/workshops/2006/

Type of Work

Research

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Item

Middleware caching optimizations

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Explanation

Argonne and Northwestern U. are doing very interesting work in the area of middleware and file system optimizations. It should be possible to exploit this work in HDF5 to improve I/O on high end systems.

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Documentation

"Scalable I/O Middleware and File System Optimizations for High-Performance Computing," http://institute.lanl.gov/hec-fsio/workshops/2006/