Darshan

Description

Darshan is a scalable HPC I/O characterization tool designed to capture an accurate picture of application I/O behavior, including properties such as patterns of access within files, with minimum overhead.

Impact, Sustainability, and Quality

Property	State
Impact	Darshan enables critical insights on IO performance at scale.
Sustainability	Darshan is an active project that employs end to end testing on multiple target platforms.
Quality	Darshan has well-established software management and testing processes, including public repository, bug tracking, documentation, and CI processes for many platforms.

Software Quality Characteristics

Website	Documentation	Repository	Test Suite	Spack	E4S	Smoke Test
Website	Documentation	Repository	✅	Spack	✅	✅

Note: Working with the STEP leadership to refine metrics and identify methods to demonstrate how project efforts lead to measurable increases in software quality.

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