MPI I/O Features

• Noncontiguous access in both memory and file

• Use of explicit offset

• Individual and shared file pointers

• Nonblocking I/O

• Collective I/O

• File interoperability

• Portable data representation

• Mechanism for providing hints applicable to a particular implementation and I/O environment (e.g. number of disks, striping factor): info

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