@InCollection{nieuwejaar:strided2-book,
  author = {Nils Nieuwejaar and David Kotz},
  title = {Low-level Interfaces for High-level Parallel {I/O}},
  booktitle = {Input/Output in Parallel and Distributed Computer Systems},
  chapter = {9},
  editor = {Ravi Jain and John Werth and James C. Browne},
  year = {1996},
  series = {The Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer
  Science},
  volume = {362},
  pages = {205--223},
  publisher = {Kluwer Academic Publishers},
  copyright = {Kluwer Academic Publishers},
  earlier = {nieuwejaar:strided2},
  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
  three extensions to the interface that support {\em strided}, {\em
  nested-strided}, and {\em nested-batched} I/O requests. We show how these
  extensions can be used to express common access patterns.},
  comment = {Part of a whole book on parallel I/O; see iopads-book and
  nieuwejaar:strided2 (which is not much different).}
}