Parallel File I/O

Program's name: Parallel File I/O
Available version(s): Programming language(s): C++ ·
Programming model(s): MPI ·

A naive approach to file I/O in parallel software is for one process to sequentially read/write ASCII data to/from a single file (e.g. using the C fscanf and fprintf commands) with point to point communications to share the data with all other processes.