@InProceedings{kotz:fsint2,
  author = {David Kotz},
  title = {Multiprocessor File System Interfaces},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Parallel
  and Distributed Information Systems},
  year = {1993},
  pages = {194--201},
  publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press},
  copyright = {IEEE},
  earlier = {kotz:fsint},
  URL = {http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~dfk/papers/kotz:fsint2.ps.gz},
  URLpdf = {http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~dfk/papers/kotz:fsint2.pdf},
  keywords = {dfk, parallel I/O, multiprocessor file system, file system
  interface, pario-bib},
  abstract = {Increasingly, file systems for multiprocessors are designed with
  parallel access to multiple disks, to keep I/O from becoming a serious
  bottleneck for parallel applications. Although file system software can
  transparently provide high-performance access to parallel disks, a new file
  system interface is needed to facilitate parallel access to a file from a
  parallel application. We describe the difficulties faced when using the
  conventional (Unix-like) interface in parallel applications, and then outline
  ways to extend the conventional interface to provide convenient access to the
  file for parallel programs, while retaining the traditional interface for
  programs that have no need for explicitly parallel file access. Our interface
  includes a single naming scheme, a {\em multiopen\/} operation, local and
  global file pointers, mapped file pointers, logical records, {\em
  multifiles}, and logical coercion for backward compatibility.},
  comment = {See also lake:pario for implementation of some of the ideas.}
}