Shared Files Library
The Shared Files (SF) library implements logically-shared temporary files for parallel SPMD (single-program-multiple-data) applications. Any process can read and write at arbitrary location in a file independently of other processes. Shared files must be created and destroyed collectively. To optimize performance of the library, user can provide hints on:
- soft limit, and
- hard limit for the file size.
The SF read and write operations are asynchronous/nonblocking and require a wait operation to complete.
Due to the FORTRAN data type limitations, in order to facilitate access to files >2GB the file size, request size and offset arguments use double precision data types.
All SF routines return an error code. The "0" value means success, other values correspond to error codes.