@InProceedings{sinclair:placement,
  author = {J. B. Sinclair and J. Tang and P. J. Varman and B. R. Iyer},
  title = {Impact of Data Placement on Parallel {I/O} Systems},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1993 International Conference on Parallel
  Processing},
  year = {1993},
  pages = {III--276--279},
  publisher = {CRC Press},
  address = {St. Charles, IL},
  keywords = {parallel I/O, pario-bib},
  comment = {Several external merges (many sorted runs into one) are
  concurrently in action. Where do you put their input and output runs, that
  is, on which disks? Only input runs are striped, and usually on a subset of
  disks.}
}