@InProceedings{baer:grid-io,
  author = {Troy Baer and Pete Wyckoff},
  title = {A parallel {I/O} mechanism for distributed systems.},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Cluster
  Computing},
  year = {2004},
  month = {September},
  pages = {63--69},
  publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press},
  address = {San Diego, CA},
  keywords = {grid I/O, MPI-I/O, grid middleware, gridFTP, pario-bib},
  abstract = {Access to shared data is critical to the long term success of
  grids of distributed systems. As more parallel applications are being used on
  these grids, the need for some kind of parallel I/O facility across
  distributed systems increases. However, grid middleware has thus far had only
  limited support for distributed parallel I/O. In this paper, we present an
  implementation of the MPI-2 I/O interface using the Globus GridFTP client
  API. MPI is widely used for parallel computing, and its I/O interface maps
  onto a large variety of storage systems. The limitations of using GridFTP as
  an MPI-I/O transport mechanism are described, as well as support for parallel
  access to scientific data formats such as HDF and NetCDF. We compare the
  performance of GridFTP to that of NFS on the same network using several
  parallel I/O benchmarks. Our tests indicate that GridFTP can be a workable
  transport for parallel I/O, particularly for distributed read-only access to
  shared data sets. (26 refs.)}
}