@Article{nieuwejaar:workload,
  author = {Nils Nieuwejaar and David Kotz and Apratim Purakayastha and Carla
  Schlatter Ellis and Michael Best},
  title = {File-Access Characteristics of Parallel Scientific Workloads},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems},
  year = {1996},
  month = {October},
  volume = {7},
  number = {10},
  pages = {1075--1089},
  publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press},
  copyright = {IEEE},
  earlier = {nieuwejaar:workload-tr},
  URL = {http://www.computer.org/tpds/td1996/l1075abs.htm},
  URLpdf = {http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~dfk/papers/nieuwejaar:workload.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 multiprocessor file systems. \par
  The design of a high-performance multiprocessor file system requires a
  comprehensive understanding of the expected workload. Unfortunately, until
  recently, no general workload studies of multiprocessor 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 multiprocessor file-system design.},
  comment = {See also kotz:workload, nieuwejaar:strided, ap:workload.}
}