@InCollection{corbett:mpi-overview-book,
  author = {Peter Corbett and Dror Feitelson and Sam Fineberg and Yarsun Hsu
  and Bill Nitzberg and Jean-Pierre Prost and Marc Snir and Bernard Traversat
  and Parkson Wong},
  title = {Overview of the {MPI-IO} Parallel {I/O} Interface},
  booktitle = {Input/Output in Parallel and Distributed Computer Systems},
  chapter = {5},
  editor = {Ravi Jain and John Werth and James C. Browne},
  crossref = {iopads-book},
  year = {1996},
  series = {The Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer
  Science},
  volume = {362},
  pages = {127--146},
  publisher = {Kluwer Academic Publishers},
  earlier = {corbett:mpi-overview},
  keywords = {parallel I/O, file system interface, pario-bib},
  abstract = {Thanks to MPI, writing portable message passing parallel programs
  is almost a reality. One of the remaining problems is file I/O. Although
  parallel file systems support similar interfaces, the lack of a standard
  makes developing a truly portable program impossible. It is not feasible to
  develop large scientific applications from scratch for each generation of
  parallel machine, and, in the scientific world, a program is not considered
  truly portable unless it not only compiles, but also runs efficiently. \par
  The MPI-IO interface is being proposed as an extension to the MPI standard to
  fill this need. MPI-IO supports a high-level interface to describe the
  partitioning of file data among processes, a collective interface describing
  complete transfers of global data structures between process memories and
  files, asynchronous I/O operations, allowing computation to be overlapped
  with I/O, and optimization of physical file layout on storage devices
  (disks).},
  comment = {Part of a whole book on parallel I/O; see iopads-book.}
}