PAVEMENT/PIOParallel I/O System for Massively Parallel Processors

MPP (Massively Parallel Processor)

Front-end Machine

（ Multiprocessor ）

Utilizing Multiple I/O Processors on MPP

Commodity Network Media for High Cost/Performance

Automatic/Dynamic Load Balancing among Parallel Conenections

PAVEMENT/PIO provides a flexible, self load balanced and high cost/performance parallel input/output environment which enrolls surrounding front-end machines to any style of massively parallel processing system. API of PAVEMENT/PIO is very simple and easy-to-program for end user applications which require high throughput I/O interactions with file servers, visualization servers and/or other outer environments for the next generation HPC platforms.

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PAVEMENT/VIZParallel Visualization Environment for Large Amount Data

Massively Parallel ProcessorCP-PACS

(2048 PUs, 128 IOUs)

Parallel Visualization ServerSGI Onyx2 (4 Processors)

Parallel File ServerSGI Origin-2000 (8 Processors)

SwitchingHUB

Parallel100Base-TX

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Alpha ClusterHYADES (16 Nodes)

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Experimental Environment of PAVEMENT (Parallel I/O and Visualization Environment)

binder AVS/Express

read module

Data Buffer(shared memory)

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Onyx2 (Visualizer)

PAVEMENT/VIZ is a parallelized visualization system on shared memory front-end graphic workstation, which coordinates with MPP to visualize large amount of numerical output based on PAVEMENT/PIO. Multi-threaded parallel visualization software engines like parallel volume rendering module provide high speed visualization environment. PAVEMENT/VIZ is implemented based on AVS/Express for high portability and flexibility.