Journal Publications
Avery Ching, Alok Choudhary, Wei-keng Liao, Robert Ross, and William
Gropp. Evaluating structured I/O methods for parallel file systems.
International Journal of High Performance Computing and
Networking, 2:133-145, 2004.
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Book Chapters
Avery Ching, Kenin Coloma, Arifa Nisar, Wei-keng
Liao, and Alok Choudhary. Distributed file systems. In Wiley
Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Engineering. John Wiley &
Sons, Inc., 2008.
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Avery Ching, Kenin Coloma, Jianwei Li, Alok Choudhary, and Wei-keng
Liao. High-performance techniques for parallel I/O. In Handbook
of Parallel Computing: Models, Algorithms, and Applications. CRC
Press, December, 2007.
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Avery Ching, Kenin Coloma, and Alok Choudhary. Challenges for
parallel I/O in GRID computing. In Engineering the Grid: Status
and Perspective. American Scientific Publishers, January, 2006.
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Conference and Workshop Publications
Avery Ching, Robert Ross, Wei-keng Liao, Lee Ward, and Alok
Choudhary. Noncontiguous locking techniques for parallel file
systems. In Proceedings of Supercomputing, November 2007.
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Wei-keng Liao, Avery Ching, Kenin Coloma, Arifa Nisar, Alok Choudhary,
Jackie Chen, Ramanan Sankaran, and Scott Klasky. Using
MPI file caching to improve parallel write performance for large-scale
scientific applications. In Proceedings of Supercomputing,
November 2007.
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Wei-keng Liao, Avery Ching, Kenin Coloma, and Alok
Choudhary. Improving MPI independent write performance using a
two-stage write-behind buffering method. In the NSF Next
Generation Software Workshop, held in conjunction with the
International Parallel and Distributed Processing
Symposium. March 2007.
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Wei-keng Liao, Avery Ching, Kenin Coloma, Alok Choudhary, and Lee
Ward. Implementation and evaluation of client-side file caching for
MPI-IO. In Proceedings of the International Parallel and
Distributed Processing Symposium. March, 2007.
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Wu-chun Feng, Avery Ching, and Chung-hsing Hsu. Green supercomputing
for the desktop. In the Workshop on High-Performance, Power-Aware
Computing, held in conjunction with the International Parallel and
Distributed Processing Symposium. March, 2007.
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Kenin Coloma, Avery Ching, Alok Choudhary, Wei-keng Liao, Rob Ross,
Rajeev Thakur, and Lee Ward. A new flexible MPI collective I/O
implementation. In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Cluster
Computing, September 2006.
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Avery Ching, Wu-chun Feng, Heshan Lin, Xiaosong Ma, and Alok
Choudhary. Exploring I/O strategies for parallel sequence database
search tools with S3aSim. In Proceedings of the International
Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, June
2006.
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Peter Aarestad, Avery Ching, George Thiruvathukal, and Alok
Choudhary. Scalable approaches for supporting MPI-IO atomicity. In
Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster
Computing and the Grid, May 2006.
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Avery Ching, Alok Choudhary, Wei-keng Liao, Lee Ward, and Neil
Pundit. Evaluating I/O characteristics and methods for storing
structured scientific data. In Proceedings of the International
Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, April 2006.
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Kenin Coloma, Alok Choudhary, Avery Ching, Wei-keng Liao, Seung
Woo Son, Mahmut Kandemir, and Lee Ward. Power and performance in I/O
for scientific applications. In the NSF Next Generation Software
Program Workshop, held in conjunction with the International
Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, April 2005.
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Avery Ching, Alok Choudhary, Wei-keng Liao, Robert Ross, and
William Gropp. Efficient structured data access in parallel file
systems. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on
Cluster Computing, December 2003.
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Avery Ching, Alok Choudhary, Kenin Coloma, Wei-keng Liao, Robert Ross,
and William Gropp. Noncontiguous access through MPI-IO. In
Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster
Computing and the Grid, May 2003.
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Avery Ching, Alok Choudhary, Wei-keng Liao, Robert Ross, and
William Gropp. Noncontiguous I/O through PVFS. In Proceedings of
the IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, September
2002.
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Other Publications
Avery Ching, Alok Choudhary, Wei-keng Liao, Robert Ross, and William
Gropp, "Efficient structured access in parallel file systems,"
Preprint ANL/MCS-P1086-0903, 2003.
Avery Ching, Alok Choudhary, Kenin Coloma, Wei-keng Liao, Robert Ross,
and William Gropp, "Noncontiguous access through MPI-IO," Preprint
ANL/MCS-P1085-0903, 2002.
Avery Ching, Alok Choudhary, Wei-keng Liao, Robert Ross, William
Gropp, "Noncontiguous I/O through PVFS," Preprint ANL/MCS-P970-0702,
July 2002.