%T Throughput of Existing Multiprocessor File Systems (An Informal Study)
%A David Kotz
%R Technical Report PCS-TR93-190
%I Dartmouth College, Computer Science
%C Hanover, NH
%D  1993
%U http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR93-190.ps.Z
%X
 	Fast file systems are critical for high-performance scientific
 computing, since many scientific applications have tremendous I/O
 requirements. Many parallel supercomputers have only recently obtained
 fully parallel I/O architectures and file systems, which are necessary
 for scalable I/O performance. Scalability aside, I show here that many
 systems lack sufficient absolute performance. I do this by surveying
 the performance reported in the literature, summarized in an informal
 table.