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Current trends in High Performance Computing (HPC) platforms suggest the adoption of the distributed memory paradigm by employing multiple machines for peak floating point performances. This trend must cope with the issue of reading and writing back data on clustered file systems providing shared storage. Clustered file system are usually implemented on a Storage Area Network (SAN) equipped with an...