@TechReport{Dartmouth:TR94-230,
  author = {Nils Nieuwejaar and David Kotz},
  title = {{A Multiprocessor Extension to the Conventional File System Interface}},
  institution = {Dartmouth College, Computer Science},
  address = {Hanover, NH},
  number = {PCS-TR94-230},
  year = {1994},
  URL = {http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR94-230.ps.Z},
  comment = {
    A result of the <A HREF="/~dfk/charisma.html">CHARISMA project</A>.
    This report has been superceded by report PCS-TR95-253.
  },
  abstract = {
     As the I/O needs of parallel scientific applications increase, file
    systems for multiprocessors are being designed to provide applications
    with parallel access to multiple disks.  Many parallel file systems
    present applications with a conventional Unix-like interface that
    allows the application to access multiple disks transparently.  By
    tracing all the activity of a parallel file system in a production,
    scientific computing environment, we show that many applications
    exhibit highly regular, but non-consecutive I/O access patterns.
    Since the conventional interface does not provide an efficient method
    of describing these patterns, we present an extension which supports
    strided and nested-strided I/O requests.
  }
}