@InProceedings{smirni:workload,
  author = {E. Smirni and D.A. Reed},
  title = {Workload characterization of input/output intensive parallel
  applications},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Conference on Modelling Techniques and Tools
  for Computer Performance Evaluation},
  year = {1997},
  month = {June},
  series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume = {1245},
  pages = {169--180},
  publisher = {Springer-Verlag},
  later = {smirni:lessons},
  URL = {http://vibes.cs.uiuc.edu/Publications/Papers/Tools97.ps.gz},
  keywords = {parallel I/O, pario-bib},
  abstract = {The broadening disparity in the performance of input/output (I/O)
  devices and the performance of processors and communication links on parallel
  systems is a major obstacle to achieving high performance for a wide range of
  parallel applications. I/O hardware and file system parallelism are the keys
  to bridging this performance gap. A prerequisite to the development of
  efficient parallel file systems is detailed characterization of the I/O
  demands of parallel applications. In this paper, we present a comparative
  study of the I/O access patterns commonly found in I/O intensive parallel
  applications. Using the Pablo performance analysis environment and its I/O
  extensions we captured application I/O access patterns and analyzed their
  interactions with current parallel I/O systems. This analysis has proven
  instrumental in guiding the development of new application programming
  interfaces (APIs) for parallel file systems and in developing effective file
  system policies that can adaptively respond to complex application I/O
  requirements.},
  comment = {see smirni:lessons}
}