Two Argonne researchers, in collaboration with colleagues from Clemson University, have won the Best Paper Award at the 4th Annual Linux Showcase and Conference, Atlanta, held in October 2000. The award includes a prize of $500.
The paper describes the design and implementation of PVFS, a parallel virtual file system that Argonne is exploring for use on Linux clusters. Included in the paper are performance results on the Chiba City cluster at Argonne. Specifically, the investigators compare the I/O performance when using a Myrinet network versus a fast-ethernet network for I/O-related communication in PVFS.
On the Chiba City cluster, the researchers are able to obtain read and write bandwidths as high as 700 Mbytes/sec with Myrinet and 225 Mbytes/sec with fast ethernet.
The paper, entitled "PVFS: A Parallel File System for Linux Clusters," was coauthored by Philip H. Carns and Walter B. Ligon III of Clemson University and by Robert B. Ross and Rajeev Thakur of Argonne. It will appear in the Proceedings of the Extreme Linux Track: 4th Annual Linux Showcase and Conference, October 2000.
The paper is also on the Web.