@TechReport{nieuwejaar:strided,
  author = {Nils Nieuwejaar and David Kotz},
  title = {A Multiprocessor Extension to the Conventional File System
  Interface},
  year = {1994},
  month = {September},
  number = {PCS-TR94-230},
  institution = {Dept. of Computer Science, Dartmouth College},
  copyright = {the authors},
  later = {nieuwejaar:strided2-tr},
  URL = {https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/cs_tr/103/},
  URLpdf = {http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~dfk/papers/nieuwejaar:strided.pdf},
  keywords = {parallel I/O, multiprocessor file system, pario-bib, dfk},
  abstract = {As the I/O needs of parallel scientific applications increase,
  file systems for multiprocessors are being designed to provide applications
  with parallel access to multiple disks. Many parallel file systems present
  applications with a conventional Unix-like interface that allows the
  application to access multiple disks transparently. By tracing all the
  activity of a parallel file system in a production, scientific computing
  environment, we show that many applications exhibit highly regular, but
  non-consecutive I/O access patterns. Since the conventional interface does
  not provide an efficient method of describing these patterns, we present an
  extension which supports {\em strided} and {\em nested-strided} I/O
  requests.}
}