The hardware/software organization/structure in a data center/supercomputer.

• To provide knowledge about I/O architectures used in HPC environments: local, distributed, parallel and hierarchical file systems

• Typical I/O systems used in HPC environments
• Different types of media (e.g. tape, disk, and SSD)
• The differentiation between standard file systems and distributed file systems
• When to use local and global storage

• K1.3.3 Data Management
• K1.3.4 Access Pattern
• K1.3.5-B Access Pattern
• K1.3.2 Data Reduction Techniques
• K1.3-I I/O Architectures
• K1.3.1 I/O Layers