@InProceedings{chiueh:tapes,
  author = {{Tzi-cker} Chiueh},
  title = {Performance Optimization for Parallel Tape Arrays},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Conference on
  Supercomputing},
  year = {1995},
  month = {July},
  pages = {375--384},
  publisher = {ACM Press},
  address = {Barcelona},
  keywords = {parallel I/O, tape striping, pario-bib},
  comment = {URL points to tech report version. He points out two problems with
  tape striping: that it is difficult to keep tape drives synchronized due to
  physical variations and to bad-segment remapping in the tape, and that the
  start-up cost is very high making it difficult to get multiple tapes loaded
  and started at the same time. So he proposes a 'triangular interleaving'
  rather than the traditional round-robin interleaving, coupled with lots of
  buffering, to deal with these problems. He also proposes to use different
  striping factors for different files (movies), depending on access
  characteristics. He includes parameters for some tape robots.}
}