@InProceedings{arunachalam:prefetch2,
  author = {Meenkashi Arunachalam and Alok Choudhary and Brad Rullman},
  title = {Implementation and evaluation of prefetching in the {Intel Paragon
  Parallel File System}},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Tenth International Parallel Processing
  Symposium},
  year = {1996},
  month = {April},
  pages = {554--559},
  URL = {http://www.ece.nwu.edu/~meena/papers/ipps.ps},
  keywords = {parallel I/O, prefetching, multiprocessor file system,
  pario-bib},
  abstract = {The significant difference between the speeds of the I/O system
  (e.g., disks) and compute processors in parallel systems creates a bottleneck
  that lowers the performance of an application that does a considerable amount
  of disk accesses. A major portion of the compute processors' time is wasted
  on waiting for I/O to complete. This problem can be addressed to a certain
  extent, if the necessary data can be fetched from the disk before the I/O
  call to the disk is issued. Fetching data ahead of time, known as prefetching
  in a multiprocessor environment depends a great deal on the application's
  access pattern. The subject of this paper is implementation and performance
  evaluation of a prefetching prototype in a production parallel file system on
  the Intel Paragon. Specifically, this paper presents a) design and
  implementation of a prefetching strategy in the parallel file system and b)
  performance measurements and evaluation of the file system with and without
  prefetching. The prototype is designed at the operating system level for the
  PFS. It is implemented in the PFS subsystem of the Intel Paragon Operating
  System. It is observed that in many cases prefetching provides considerable
  performance improvements. In some other cases no improvements or some
  performance degradation is observed due to the overheads incurred in
  prefetching.},
  comment = {See arunachalam:prefetch.}
}