Bulk Synchronous Parallel ML or BSML is a functional data-parallel language for programming bulk synchronous parallel (BSP) algorithms. The execution time can be estimated and dead-locks and indeterminism are avoided. For large scale applications where parallel processing is helpful and where the total amount of data often exceeds the total main memory available, parallel disk I/O becomes a necessity. We present here a library of I/O features for BSML and its cost model.
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