Parallel I/O

Parallel I/O, in the context of a computer, means the performance of multiple I/O operations at the same time. It is a common feature of operating systems.

One particular instance is parallel writing of data to disk; when file data is spread across multiple disks, for example in a RAID array, one can store multiple parts of the data at the same time, thereby achieving higher write speeds than with a single device.

Other ways of parallel access to data include: Parallel Virtual File System, Lustre, GFS etc.

Parallel I/O People This item lists some of the people that are or were active in research about parallel I/O. This list is by no means comprehensive.

• Carlos Maltzahn, University of California, Santa Cruz, carlosm@cs.ucsc.edu
• Sandra Johnson Baylor, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, sandyj@watson.ibm.com
• Rob Ross, Argonne National Laboratory, rross@mcs.anl.gov
• Brent Welch, Panasas, welch@acm.org
• Robert Bedichek, MIT, robertb@lcs.mit.edu
• Karsten Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology, schwan@cc.gatech.edu
• Mike Best, MIT (was TMC), mikeb@media.mit.edu
• Rajesh Bordawekar, IBM TJ Watson, bordaw@us.ibm.com
• Andrew Grimshaw, University of Virginia, grimshaw@virginia.edu
• Bill Gropp, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, wgropp@illinois.edu
• Mark Holland, Peace Corps in Malawi (was Carnegie-Mellon University), holland@cs.cmu.edu
• John H. Howard, Sun Microsystems
• Terry Jones, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, trj@llnl.gov
• Meenakshi Kandaswamy, Northwestern University, meena@ece.nwu.edu
• Mahmut Kandemir, Northwestern University, mtk@ece.nwu.edu
• Randy Katz, University of California, Berkeley, randy@cs.berkeley.edu
• Chuck Koelbel, Rice University, chk@cs.rice.edu
• David Kotz, Dartmouth College, dfk AT cs.dartmouth.edu
• Peter Brezany, University of Vienna, brezany@par.univie.ac.at
• Brad Broom, Rice University, CRPC broom@rice.edu
• Walt Burkhard, University of California, San Diego, burkhard@cs.ucsd.edu
• Pei Cao, University of Stanford, cao@cs.stanford.edu
• Andrew Chien, University of California, San Diego, achien@cs.ucsd.edu
• David A. Bader, Georgia Institute of Technology, bader@cc.gatech.edu
• Alok Choudhary, Northwestern University, choudhar@ece.nwu.edu
• Jeffrey Vetter, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, vetter@computer.org
• Peter Corbett, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, corbett@watson.ibm.com
• Tom Cormen, Dartmouth College, thc@cs.dartmouth.edu
• Toni Cortes, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, toni@ac.upc.es
• Juan Miguel (Mike) del Rosario, Syracuse University, mrosario@npac.syr.edu
• David DeWitt, University of Wisconsin, Madison, dewitt@cs.wisc.edu
• Dror Feitelson, Israel, feit@cs.huji.ac.il
• Paolo Ferragina, Max Planck Institut fur Informatik, ferragin@di.unipi.it
• Hector Garcia-Molina, Stanford University, hector@cs.stanford.edu
• Garth Gibson, Carnegie-Mellon University, garth.gibson@cs.cmu.edu
• Matthew Wolf, Georgia Institute of Technology, mwolf@cc.gatech.edu
• Leana Golubchik, University of Maryland, leana@cs.umd.edu
• David Greenberg, Sandia National Labs, dsgreen@cs.sandia.gov
• Orran Krieger, IBM T.J. Watson, okrieg@watson.ibm.com
• Kai Li, Princeton University, li@cs.princeton.edu
• Ed Loyot, Willamette University (was UVa), eloyot@willamette.edu
• Barney Maccabe, University of New Mexico, maccabe@cs.unm.edu
• John May, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, johnmay@llnl.gov
• Jai Menon, IBM Almaden, menonjm@almaden.ibm.com
• Ethan Miller, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, elm@cs.umbc.edu
• Eugene Miya, NASA Ames NAS, eugene@nas.nasa.gov
• Jason Moore, Air Force Academy (was Oregon State Univ.), moorej@cs.orst.edu
• Thomas Mueck, University of Vienna, mueck@ifs.univie.ac.at
• Dick Muntz, University of California, Los Angeles, muntz@CS.UCLA.EDU
• David Nagle, Carnegie Mellon, bassoon@ece.cmu.edu
• Nils Nieuwejaar, Sun Microsystems (was Dartmouth), Nils.Nieuwejaar@East.Sun.com
• Bill Nitzberg, NASA Ames NAS, nitzberg@nas.nasa.gov
• Ekechi Nwokah, Purdue University, nwokah@purdue.edu
• Ron Oldfield, Sandia National Laboratories, raoldfi@sandia.gov
• John Ousterhout, Stanford University, ouster@cs.stanford.edu
• Dhabaleswar K. (DK) Panda, Ohio State University, panda@cse.ohio-state.edu
• Mike Paleczny, Rice University, mpal@cs.rice.edu
• Chanik Park, Pohang University of Science Technology, cipark@postech.edu
• David Patterson, University of California, Berkeley, patterson@cs.berkeley.edu
• David Payne, Intel SSD at Caltech, payne@delilah.ccsf.caltech.edu
• Jean-Pierre Prost, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, jpprost@watson.ibm.com
• Apratim Purakayastha, IBM T.J. Watson. apu@watson.ibm.com
• Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, University of Florida, raj@cise.ufl.edu
• Dan Reed, Microsoft, reed@microsoft.com
• Joel Saltz, University of Maryland, saltz@hyena.cs.umd.edu
• Erich Schikuta, University of Vienna, schiki@ifs.univie.ac.at
• Kent Seamons, Brigham Young University, seamons@cs.byu.edu
• Liddy Shriver, New York University, shriver@research.bell-labs.com
• Marc Snir, UIUC snir@cs.uiuc.edu
• Dan Stodolsky, Carnegie-Mellon University, danner+@cs.cmu.edu
• Rajeev Thakur, Argonne National Laboratory, thakur@mcs.anl.gov
• Sivan Toledo, Xerox Parc, toledo@parc.xerox.com
• Peter Varman, Rice University, pjv@rice.edu
• Darren Vengroff, University of Delaware, vengroff@ee.udel.edu
• Richard Warren, DEC, warren@hpc.pko.dec.com
• John Wilkes, Hewlett-Packard Labs, wilkes@hpl.hp.com
• Marianne Winslett, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, winslett@uiuc.edu
• David Womble, Sandia National Labs, dewombl@cs.sandia.gov