Large Computational Grids/Meshes Many new applications are utilizing finer resolution meshes and grids. Computed properties at each node and/or element often need to be written to storage for data analysis at a later time. These large computational grid/meshes Increase i/o requirements because of the larger number of data points to be saved Increase l/o time because data is being funneled through slower commodity processors in MPPLarge Computational Grids/Meshes • Many new applications are utilizing finer resolution meshes and grids. Computed properties at each node and/or element often need to be written to storage for data analysis at a later time. These large computational grid/meshes – Increase I/O requirements because of the larger number of data points to be saved. – Increase I/O time because data is being funneled through slower commodity processors in MPP