UnifyFS: Installation and Integration Tutorial for HPC Applications
Explore a 10-minute tutorial on UnifyFS, a user-level job-duration shared file system developed for the Department of Energy's Exascale Computing Project. Learn how UnifyFS unifies access to distributed, compute node-local storage devices in high performance computing (HPC) environments, making node-local storage usage as simple and fast as writing to a parallel file system. Discover the software's utilization of fast memory-based and/or disk-based local storage, and its easy integration with HPC modeling and simulation applications. Follow step-by-step instructions on installing UnifyFS, building an HPC application that incorporates it, integrating necessary environment variables, and executing run commands. Gain insights into this open-source software solution designed to enhance performance in supercomputing environments.