Metarates is a program for measuring the rate at which metadata transactions can be performed on a file system. It measures aggregate transaction rates when multiple processes read or write metadata concurrently and uses MPI to coordinate the multiple processes.
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metarates Copyright 2004, Scientific Computing Division, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
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