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XL Fortran Enterprise Edition for AIX : User's Guide - IBM

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Increasing Throughput with Logical Volume I/O and Data Striping<br />

For per<strong>for</strong>mance-critical applications, the overhead of the Journaled File System<br />

(JFS) <strong>for</strong> I/O operations might slow down the program. If your program generates<br />

large scratch files, you might find that I/O bandwidth also limits its per<strong>for</strong>mance.<br />

Per<strong>for</strong>ming I/O directly to a logical volume rather than to a file system can<br />

eliminate the JFS overhead. Using data striping on the logical volume can further<br />

improve throughput or processor utilization or both.<br />

Related In<strong>for</strong>mation: Because data-striped I/O runs much faster <strong>for</strong> data items<br />

that are aligned more strictly than normal, be sure to use the<br />

“-qalign Option” on page 125 when compiling any programs<br />

that per<strong>for</strong>m logical volume I/O or data striping.<br />

Implementation Details of <strong>XL</strong> <strong>Fortran</strong> Input/Output 333

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