A paper featuring Darshan (“Understanding and Improving Computational Science Storage Access through Continuous Characterization“) was awarded Best Paper at the 27th IEEE (MSST 2011) Symposium on Massive Storage Systems and Technologies. The paper outlines a methodology for characterizing a large scale production workload and presents a 2 month study of I/O activity on the Intrepid Blue Gene/P system at Argonne National Laboratory.
