@InProceedings{thakur:abstract,
  author = {Rajeev Thakur and William Gropp and Ewing Lusk},
  title = {An Abstract-Device Interface for Implementing Portable
  Parallel-{I/O} Interfaces},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Sixth Symposium on the Frontiers of Massively
  Parallel Computation},
  year = {1996},
  month = {October},
  pages = {180--187},
  earlier = {thakur:abstract-tr},
  URL = {http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~thakur/papers/adio.ps},
  keywords = {parallel I/O, multiprocessor file system interface, pario-bib},
  abstract = {In this paper, we propose a strategy for implementing
  parallel-I/O interfaces portably and efficiently. We have defined an
  abstract-device interface for parallel I/O, called ADIO. Any parallel-I/O API
  can be implemented on multiple file systems by implementing the API portably
  on top of ADIO, and implementing only ADIO on different file systems. This
  approach simplifies the task of implementing an API and yet exploits the
  specific high-performance features of individual file systems. We have used
  ADIO to implement the Intel PFS interface and subsets of MPI-IO and IBM PIOFS
  interfaces on PFS, PIOFS, Unix, and NFS file systems. Our performance studies
  indicate that the overhead of using ADIO as an implementation strategy is
  very low.}
}