Abstract-While many scientific, large-scale applications are data-intensive, fast and efficient I/O operations have become of key importance for HPC environments. We propose an MPI I/O extension based on in-system distributed cache with data located in Non-volatile Random Access Memory (NVRAM) available in each cluster node. The presented architecture makes effective use of NVRAM properties such as persistence and byte-level access behind the MPI I/O API. Another advantage of the proposed solution is making development of a parallel application easy and efficient as a programmer just needs to use the well known MPI I/O data model and API while efficient file access is automatically provided without a need for application level optimizations like avoiding frequent operations on a small data.Results of experiments obtained with three different applications suggest, that the extension significantly reduces file access time, especially for small I/O operations. By locating cache facilities on computing nodes, the extension decreases load of file system servers and makes I/O scalable.
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