@InProceedings{garg:tflops-pfs,
  author = {Sharad Garg},
  title = {{TFLOPS PFS}: Architecture and Design of A Highly Efficient Parallel
  File System},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of SC98: High Performance Networking and Computing},
  year = {1998},
  month = {November},
  publisher = {ACM Press},
  URL = {http://www.supercomp.org/sc98/TechPapers/sc98_FullAbstracts/Garg891/},
  keywords = {parallel file system, intel, ASCI Red, pario-bib},
  abstract = {In recent years, many commercial Massively Parallel Processor
  (MPP) systems have been available to the computing community. These systems
  provide very high processing power (up to hundreds of GFLOPs), and can scale
  efficiently with the number of processors. However, many scientific and
  commercial applications that run on these multiprocessors may not experience
  significant benefit in terms of speedup and are bottlenecked by their I/O
  requirements. Although these multiprocessors may be configured with
  sufficient I/O hardware, the file system software often fails to provide the
  available I/O bandwidth to the application, and causes severe performance
  degradation for I/O intensive applications. \par A highly efficient parallel
  file system has been implemented on Intel's Teraflops (TFLOPS) machine and
  provides a sustained I/O bandwidth of 1 GB/sec. This file system provides
  almost 95\% of the available raw hardware I/O bandwidth and the I/O bandwidth
  scales proportional to the available I/O nodes. \par Intel's TFLOPS machine
  is the first Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI) machine that
  DOE has acquired. This computer is 10 times more powerful than the fastest
  machine today, and will be used primarily to simulate nuclear testing and to
  ensure the safety and effectiveness of the nation's nuclear weapons
  stockpile. \par This machine contains over 9000 Intel's Pentium Pro
  processors, and will provide a peak CPU performance of 1.8 teraflops. This
  papers presents the I/O design and architecture of Intel's TFLOPS
  supercomputer, describes the Cougar OS I/O and its interface with the Intel's
  Parallel File System.},
  comment = {Describes the parallel file system for ASCI Red. The paper is only
  available as HTML}
}