README

README.md

+TAPIOCA: Topology-Aware Parellel I/O Collective Aggregation
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+TAPIOCA is a static library implementing the two-phase I/O scheme on top of MPI I/O. This library is topology-aware in that it provides a couple of aggregator placement strategies taking into account the network characteristics and the data access pattern. TAPIOCA is optimized for large-scale supercomputers through an implementation made using MPI one-sided communication (RMA) and non-blocking operation.
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+TAPIOCA (before being named like this) has been introduced in a SC'16 Workshop paper: [[Topology-Aware Data Aggregation for Intensive I/O on Large-Scale Supercomputers|http://www.francoistessier.info/documents/COM-HPC16-IO.pdf]]
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 Environment variables
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   * TAPIOCA_STRATEGY   = SHORTEST_PATH / LONGEST_PATH / TOPOLOGY_AWARE / CONTENTION_AWARE
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   * TAPIOCA_DEVNULL    = true / false. If true, instead of effectively writing the file, the write operation is made in /dev/null. Useful for aggregation time measurements.
 
 
-  Default values
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+ Default values
     TAPIOCA_STRATEGY   = SHORTEST_PATH
     TAPIOCA_NBAGGR     = 8
     TAPIOCA_BUFFERSIZE = 16777216