If you would like to learn more about I/O in High Performance Computing, come check out our SC 2017 tutorial Parallel I/O in Practice. We will cover the hardware and software that makes up the software stack on large parallel computers. MPI-IO takes up a big chunk of time, as do the I/O libraries which …
Data Direct has a storage product called “Infinte Memory Engine“. You can access this accelerated storage through POSIX but there is also a library-level native interface. DDN recently contributed a ROMIO driver to use the IME “native” interfaces, and I have merged this into MPICH master for an upcoming release. Thanks! For most people, this …