PERFORMANCE

Type of Work	Item	Explanation	Documentation
R&D	I/O benchmarking R&D effort	I/O benchmarking is very important to many HDF users, and currently is handled in a somewhat ad hoc manner. Much could be gained from having an organized, coordinated, coherent group of people and procedures to help with I/O benchmarking. We could engage benchmarking experts with experience in this area, gain familiarity with available tools in the field, and learn to apply these tools to problems of customers, and to projects that would improve HDF itself. This group would also solicit research funding and work with researchers in the field, such as the folks at the DoE labs, academia.	n/a

Type of Work

R&D

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Item

I/O benchmarking R&D effort

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Explanation

I/O benchmarking is very important to many HDF users, and currently is handled in a somewhat ad hoc manner. Much could be gained from having an organized, coordinated, coherent group of people and procedures to help with I/O benchmarking. We could engage benchmarking experts with experience in this area, gain familiarity with available tools in the field, and learn to apply these tools to problems of customers, and to projects that would improve HDF itself. This group would also solicit research funding and work with researchers in the field, such as the folks at the DoE labs, academia.

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Documentation

n/a