@MastersThesis{huber:msthesis,
  author = {James V. {Huber, Jr.}},
  title = {{PPFS}: An Experimental File System for High Performance Parallel
  Input/Output},
  year = {1995},
  month = {February},
  school = {Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana
  Champaign},
  URL = {http://www-pablo.cs.uiuc.edu/Papers/huberMS.html},
  keywords = {parallel file system, pario-bib},
  abstract = {The I/O problem is described in the context of parallel
  scientific applications. A user-level input/output library, PPFS, is
  introduced to address these issues. The design and implementation of PPFS are
  presented. Some simple performance benchmarks are reported. Experiments on
  two production-scale applications are given.},
  comment = {He describes the design and implementation of PPFS, along with
  some experimental results. PPFS is a C++ library and a set of servers that
  implement a parallel file system on top of unix on a cluster or a Paragon.
  Interesting features of PPFS include: files are a sequence of records (fixed
  size or variable size), read_next and read_any operations, a no-extend option
  to reduce overhead of maintaining file-size information, client and server
  caching, intermediate caching agents for consistency, prefetching and write
  behind, and user-defined declustering and indexing policies. User-defined
  changes actually have to be precompiled into the server programs. Good
  results in comparison to PFS on the Paragon, though that doesn't say much.
  They are porting it to the SP-2.}
}