@InProceedings{huber:ppfs,
  author = {Jay Huber and Christopher L. Elford and Daniel A. Reed and Andrew
  A. Chien and David S. Blumenthal},
  title = {{PPFS}: A High Performance Portable Parallel File System},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Conference on
  Supercomputing},
  year = {1995},
  month = {July},
  pages = {385--394},
  publisher = {ACM Press},
  address = {Barcelona},
  earlier = {huber:ppfs-tr},
  later = {huber:bppfs},
  URL = {http://www-pablo.cs.uiuc.edu/Papers/ICS95-ppfs.html},
  keywords = {parallel file system, parallel I/O, pario-bib},
  abstract = {Rapid increases in processor performance over the past decade
  have outstripped performance improvements in input/output devices, increasing
  the importance of input/output performance to overall system performance.
  Further, experience has shown that the performance of parallel input/output
  systems is particularly sensitive to data placement and data management
  policies, making good choices critical. To explore this vast design space, we
  have developed a user-level library, the Portable Parallel File System
  (PPFS), which supports rapid experimentation and exploration. The PPFS
  includes a rich application interface, allowing the application to advertise
  access patterns, control caching and prefetching, and even control data
  placement. PPFS is both extensible and portable, making possible a wide range
  of experiments on a broad variety of platforms and configurations. Our
  initial experiments, based on simple benchmarks and two application programs,
  show that tailoring policies to input/output access patterns yields
  significant performance benefits, often improving performance by nearly an
  order of magnitude.}
}