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I/O tracing

Feb 13, 2026

LOTS of people in the HPC community have done work towards tracing I/O patterns.

Tools for generating traces

  • Darshan DXT is a tracer built into Darshan that can be enabled.

Analyzing traces

  • Xiaosong Ma’s team developed a wavelet-based approach to pulling individual checkpoint bursts out of noisy server-side logs in 2016. (Server-Side Log Data Analytics for I/O Workload Characterization and Coordination on Large Shared Storage Systems

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  • Tools for generating traces
  • Analyzing traces

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