EXCLUSIVE ACCESS FILES

Basic Capabilities:

Single portable interface to all filesystems

Access to parallel filesystems

Asynchronous read and write operations

Persistent and scratch files

Similar API to standard Unix file operations

Built-in Pablo instrumentation

Available Architectures:

• SunOS, Solaris
• AIX, workstations and SP-x configurations
• SGI, SGI PowerChallenge
• DEC Alpha
• Intel Paragon
• Cray T3D

Available file systems:

• Unix File System (UFS)
• Intel PFS
• IBM PIOFS

Online Users Guide:

• Example of synchronous reads and writes using EAF
• Example of asynchronous file access with EAF
• EAF Command Reference