@TechReport{nieuwejaar:workload-tr,
  author = {Nils Nieuwejaar and David Kotz and Apratim Purakayastha and Carla
  Schlatter Ellis and Michael Best},
  title = {File-Access Characteristics of Parallel Scientific Workloads},
  year = {1995},
  month = {August},
  number = {PCS-TR95-263},
  institution = {Dept. of Computer Science, Dartmouth College},
  copyright = {the authors},
  earlier = {kotz:workload},
  later = {nieuwejaar:workload},
  URL = {https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/cs_tr/237/},
  URLpdf =
  {http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~dfk/papers/nieuwejaar:workload-tr.pdf},
  keywords = {parallel I/O, file system workload, workload characterization,
  file access pattern, multiprocessor file system, dfk, pario-bib},
  abstract = {Phenomenal improvements in the computational performance of
  multiprocessors have not been matched by comparable gains in I/O system
  performance. This imbalance has resulted in I/O becoming a significant
  bottleneck for many scientific applications. One key to overcoming this
  bottleneck is improving the performance of parallel file systems. \par The
  design of a high-performance parallel file system requires a comprehensive
  understanding of the expected workload. Unfortunately, until recently, no
  general workload studies of parallel file systems have been conducted. The
  goal of the CHARISMA project was to remedy this problem by characterizing the
  behavior of several production workloads, on different machines, at the level
  of individual reads and writes. The first set of results from the CHARISMA
  project describe the workloads observed on an Intel iPSC/860 and a Thinking
  Machines CM-5. This paper is intended to compare and contrast these two
  workloads for an understanding of their essential similarities and
  differences, isolating common trends and platform-dependent variances. Using
  this comparison, we are able to gain more insight into the general principles
  that should guide parallel file-system design.},
  comment = {See also nieuwejaar:strided, ap:workload.}
}