@TechReport{nitzberg:sc95tutorial,
  author = {Bill Nitzberg and Samuel A. Fineberg},
  title = {Parallel {I/O} on Highly Parallel Systems--- Supercomputing '95
  Tutorial {M6} Notes},
  year = {1995},
  month = {December},
  number = {NAS-95-022},
  institution = {NASA Ames Research Center},
  later = {nitzberg:sc94tutorial},
  URL =
  {http://www.nas.nasa.gov/NAS/TechReports/NASreports/NAS-95-022/NAS-95-022.html},
  keywords = {parallel I/O, tutorial, pario-bib},
  abstract = {Typical scientific applications require vast amounts of
  processing power coupled with significant I/O capacity. Highly parallel
  computer systems provide floating-point processing power at low cost, but
  efficiently supporting a scientific workload also requires commensurate I/O
  performance. To achieve high I/O performance, these systems use parallelism
  in their I/O subsystems, supporting concurrent access to files by multiple
  nodes of a parallel application and striping files across multiple disks.
  However, obtaining maximum I/O performance can require significant
  programming effort. This tutorial will present a comprehensive survey of the
  state of the art in parallel I/O from basic concepts to recent advances in
  the research community. Requirements, interfaces, architectures, and
  performance will be illustrated using concrete examples from commercial
  offerings (Cray T3D, IBM SP-2, Intel Paragon, Meiko CS-2, and workstation
  clusters) and academic research projects (MPI-IO, Panda, PASSION, PIOUS, and
  Vesta). The material covered is roughly 30\% beginner, 60\% intermediate, and
  10\% advanced.}
}