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The problem of reading and writing data from media such as disk and tape while performing computation has long been a challenging one. As the quotes above indicate, I/O has often been an afterthought, a sideshow to the theater of more exciting developments in the field of high-performance computing.
“I/O certainly has been lagging in the last decade.”—Seymour Cray, Public Lecture (1976).
“Also, I/O needs a lot of work.”—David Kuck, Keynote Address, 15th Annual Symposium on Computer Architecture (1988).
“I/O has been the orphan of computer architecture.”—Hennessy and Patterson, Computer Architecture - A Quantitative Approach. 2nd Ed. (1996).
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Balaji, V. (2013). Input/Output and Postprocessing. In: Earth System Modelling - Volume 4. SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36464-8_1
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