Parallel

Darshan

Darshan is a lightweight "scalable HPC I/O characterization tool".  It is intended to profile I/O by emitting log files to a consistent log location for systems administrators, and also provides scripts to create summary PDFs to characterize I/O in MPI-based programs.

Availability and Restrictions

Versions

The following versions of Darshan are available on OSC clusters:

OpenMPI

MPI is a standard library for performing parallel processing using a distributed memory model. The Pitzer, Ascend, and Cardinal clusters at OSC can use the OpenMPI implementation of the Message Passing Interface (MPI).