Hardware Reference
In-Depth Information
FIGURE 21.4: Comparison of MIF-IO write and read performance on 3 ASC
systems (Purple [3], Dawn [1] and Graph [2] and improvement in I/O perfor-
mance with block-based VFD. [Image courtesy of Michael Collette (LLNL).]
21.5 Conclusion
Silo was developed to address a software engineering challenge: to en-
able the development of common tools with which applications can share
