@TechReport{thakur:evaluation-tr,
  author = {Rajeev Thakur and William Gropp and Ewing Lusk},
  title = {An Experimental Evaluation of the Parallel {I/O} Systems of the
  {IBM~SP} and {Intel Paragon} Using a Production Application},
  year = {1996},
  month = {February},
  number = {MCS-P569--0296},
  institution = {Argonne National Laboratory},
  later = {thakur:evaluation},
  keywords = {parallel I/O, multiprocessor file system, pario-bib},
  abstract = {This paper presents the results of an experimental evaluation of
  the parallel I/O systems of the IBM SP and Intel Paragon. For the evaluation,
  we used a full, three-dimensional application code that is in production use
  for studying the nonlinear evolution of Jeans instability in self-gravitating
  gaseous clouds. The application performs I/O by using library routines that
  we developed and optimized separately for parallel I/O on the SP and Paragon.
  The I/O routines perform two-phase I/O and use the PIOFS file system on the
  SP and PFS on the Paragon. We studied the I/O performance for two different
  sizes of the application. We found that for the small case, I/O was faster on
  the SP, whereas for the large case, I/O took almost the same time on both
  systems. Communication required for I/O was faster on the Paragon in both
  cases. The highest read bandwidth obtained was 48 Mbytes/sec. and the highest
  write bandwidth obtained was 31.6 Mbytes/sec., both on the SP.},
  comment = {This version no longer on the web.}
}