FastQuery是一個由我們所開發的平行索引和查詢系統,用來加
速分析及視覺化科學資料。我們已經把它用在許多不同的高速運算應 用程式,也用一個兆等級的模擬實驗展現了他的彈性及能力。但是在 我們實驗裡可以看到I/O的結果因為參數不同而有嚴重的影響。在這 篇論文我們將會介紹如何調整參數以及對每個參數做分析還有討論 他們的影響。我們將會展示調整過的參數對結果有重大的影響。

FastQuery is a parallel indexing and querying system we developed for accelerating analysis and visualization of scientific data. We have applied it to a wide variety of HPC applications and demonstrated its capability and scalability using a petas- cale trillion-particle simulation in our previous work. Yet, through our experience, we found that performance of reading and writing data with FastQuery, like many other HPC applications, could be significantly affected by various tunable param- eters throughout the parallel I/O stack. In this paper, we describe our success in tuning the performance of FastQuery on a Lustre parallel file system. We study and analyze the impact of parameters and tunable settings at file system, MPI-IO library, and HDF5 library levels of the I/O stack. We demonstrate that a combined optimization strategy is able to improve performance and I/O bandwidth of Fast- Query significantly. In our tests with a trillion-particle dataset, the time to index the dataset reduced by more than one half. We also provide a hybrid architecture for overlaying the CPU and IO time. FastQuery builds indexes iteratively, so the overall performance is bound by cost of each iteration. We combine thread and MPI to overcome this limitation. The results show that hybrid architecture can overlay the CPU and I/O time and has significant improvement.

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