@InProceedings{lee:logical-disks,
  author = {Jang Sun Lee and Jungmin Kim and P. Bruce Berra and Sanjay Ranka},
  title = {Logical Disks: User-Controllable {I/O} For Scientific Applications},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE Symposium on Parallel and
  Distributed Processing},
  year = {1996},
  month = {October},
  pages = {340--347},
  publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press},
  keywords = {logical disks, parallel I/O, pario-bib},
  abstract = {In this paper we propose user-controllable I/O operations and
  explore the effects of them with some synthetic access patterns. The
  operations allow users to determine a file structure matching the access
  patterns, control the layout and distribution of data blocks on physical
  disks, and present various access patterns with a minimum number of I/O
  operations. The operations do not use a file pointer to access data as in
  typical file systems, which eliminates the overhead of managing the offset of
  the file, making it easy to share data and reducing the number of I/O
  operations.}
}