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Parallel, distributed file interaction using mpifileutils

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style: article/section 📝 system: cheaha 🖧 system: data-mgmt 🗃️ system: storage 🛢
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Description

What would you like to see added?

For interacting with a large number of files, standard tools aren't performant and can cause GPFS overload depending on how they are run. Distributing the work across multiple nodes both vastly increases performance and reduces stress on GPFS. mpifileutils is great because it can be run by the users themselves as opposed to needing admins to submit an MMLS policy to perform the action.

We should add a page going over some of the benefits of mpifileutils with examples on some of the basic use cases with scripts users can copy-paste to run themselves

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Research direction

Start by reviewing the existing MkDocs documentation structure and the basic mpifileutils workflows described in the issue. Done means a page explains the benefits of distributed file interaction and provides copy-paste scripts for several basic use cases.

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Assessment

Domain
documentation, hpc
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
42/100

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