@InProceedings{lee:userio,
  author = {Jang Sun Lee and Sang-Gue Oh and Bruce P. Berra and Sanjay Ranka},
  title = {User-Controllable {I/O} for Parallel Computers},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing
  Techniques and Applications (PDPTA~'96)},
  year = {1996},
  month = {August},
  pages = {442--453},
  keywords = {parallel I/O, pario-bib},
  abstract = {This paper presents the design of UPIO, a software for
  user-controllable parallel input and output. UPIO is designed to maximize I/O
  performance for scientific applications on MIMD multicomputers. The most
  important features of UPIO are: It supports a domain-specific file model and
  a variety of application interfaces to present numerous access patterns. UPIO
  provides user-contollerable I/O operations that allow users to control data
  access, file structure, and data distribution. The domain-specific file model
  and user controllability give low I/O overhead and allow programmers to
  exploit the aggregate bandwidth of parallel disks.},
  comment = {They describe an interface that seems to allow easier access for
  programmers that want to map matrices onto parallel files. The concepts are
  not well explained, so it's hard to really understand what is new and
  different. They make no explicit comparison with other advanced interfaces
  like that in Vesta or Galley. No performance results.}
}