[Wien] parallel calc. without NFS

Steven Homolya Steven.Homolya at spme.monash.edu.au
Wed Jul 9 17:48:27 CEST 2003


On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Jeff Spirko wrote:

> You might try smoothing out some of that I/O.  Using GNU versions of
> sed and awk may help. Or, piping the input our output through cat or
> dd (with some blocksize ~10k) may force that I/O to be buffered.
> 

Thanks. I'll try that (though I'm told blocksize needs to be >= 1M).

Do any of the fortran sources read/write large files small segments at a
time?

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