AdiosStMan: Parallelizing Casacore Table Data System using Adaptive IO System

Ruonan Wang, C. Harris, Andreas Wicenec

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Abstract

© 2016 Elsevier B.V.In this paper, we investigate the Casacore Table Data System (CTDS) used in the casacore and CASA libraries, and methods to parallelize it. CTDS provides a storage manager plugin mechanism for third-party developers to design and implement their own CTDS storage managers. Having this in mind, we looked into various storage backend techniques that can possibly enable parallel I/O for CTDS by implementing new storage managers. After carrying on benchmarks showing the excellent parallel I/O throughput of the Adaptive IO System (ADIOS), we implemented an ADIOS based parallel CTDS storage manager. We then applied the CASA MSTransform frequency split task to verify the ADIOS Storage Manager. We also ran a series of performance tests to examine the I/O throughput in a massively parallel scenario.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)146-154
Number of pages9
JournalAstronomy and Computing
Volume16
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jul 2016

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