@TechReport{Dartmouth:TR94-226,
  author = {David Kotz},
  title = {{Disk-directed I/O for MIMD Multiprocessors}},
  institution = {Dartmouth College, Computer Science},
  address = {Hanover, NH},
  number = {PCS-TR94-226},
  year = {1994},
  URL = {http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR94-226.ps.Z},
  comment = {
    A shorter version of this paper appeared in OSDI, 
    although this TR has more recent numbers.  The OSDI version is
    available <A HREF="/~dfk/papers/diskdir.html">here</A>.  A more complete 
    journal version is <A HREF="/~dfk/papers/diskdir-tocs.html">here</A>.  
    <A HREF="/~dfk/STARFISH/">The simulator software is also available.</A>.
  },
  abstract = {
     Many scientific applications that run on today's multiprocessors are
    bottlenecked by their file I/O needs.  Even if the multiprocessor is
    configured with sufficient I/O hardware, the file-system software
    often fails to provide the available bandwidth to the application.
    Although libraries and improved file-system interfaces can make a
    significant improvement, we believe that fundamental changes are
    needed in the file-server software.  We propose a new technique,
    disk-directed I/O, that flips the usual relationship between server
    and client to allow the disks (actually, disk servers) to determine
    the flow of data for maximum performance.  Our simulations show that
    tremendous performance gains are possible.  Indeed, disk-directed I/O
    provided consistent high performance that was largely independent of
    data distribution, and close to the maximum disk bandwidth.
  }
}