@Article{isaila:clusterfile,
  author = {Florin Isaila and Walter F. Tichy},
  title = {Clusterfile: a flexible physical layout parallel file system},
  journal = {Concurrency and Computation},
  year = {2003},
  volume = {15},
  number = {7/8},
  pages = {653--679},
  publisher = {Wiley},
  URL =
  {http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/104524121/ABSTRACT},
  URLpdf =
  {http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/104524121/PDFSTART},
  keywords = {parallel file system, parallel I/O, pario-bib},
  abstract = {This paper presents Clusterfile, a parallel file system that
  provides parallel file access on a cluster of computers. We introduce a file
  partitioning model that has been used in the design of Clusterfile. The model
  uses a data representation that is optimized for multidimensional array
  partitioning while allowing arbitrary partitions. The paper shows how the
  file model can be employed for file partitioning into both physical subfiles
  and logical views. We also present how the conversion between two partitions
  of the same file is implemented using a general memory redistribution
  algorithm. We show how we use the algorithm to optimize non-contiguous read
  and write operations. The experimental results include performance
  comparisons with the Parallel Virtual File System (PVFS) and an MPI-IO
  implementation for PVFS.}
}