@TechReport{Dartmouth:TR98-329,
  author = {Matthew P. Carter and David Kotz},
  title = {{An Implementation of  the Vesta Parallel File System API  on the Galley Parallel File System}},
  institution = {Dartmouth College, Computer Science},
  address = {Hanover, NH},
  number = {PCS-TR98-329},
  year = {1998},
  month = {April},
  URL = {http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR98-329.ps.Z},
  abstract = {
    To demonstrate the flexibility of the Galley parallel file system and
    to analyze the efficiency and flexibility of the Vesta parallel file
    system interface, we implemented Vesta's application-programming
    interface on top of Galley.  We implemented the Vesta interface using
    Galley's file-access methods, whose design arose from extensive testing
    and characterization of the I/O requirements of scientific applications
    for high-performance multiprocessors.  We used a parallel CPU, parallel
    I/O, out-of-core matrix-multiplication application to test the Vesta
    interface in both its ability to specify data access patterns and in
    its run-time efficiency.  In spite of its powerful ability to specify the
    distribution of regular, non-overlapping data access patterns across
    disks, we found that the Vesta interface has some significant
    limitations.  We discuss these limitations in detail in the paper,
    along with the performance results.
  }
}