BibTeX for papers by David Kotz; for complete/updated list see https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~kotz/research/papers.html @Article{kotz:jwriteback, author = {David Kotz and Carla Schlatter Ellis}, title = {{Caching and Writeback Policies in Parallel File Systems}}, journal = {Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing}, year = 1993, month = {January}, volume = 17, number = {1--2}, pages = {140--145}, publisher = {Academic Press}, copyright = {Academic Press}, DOI = {10.1006/jpdc.1993.1012}, URL = {https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~kotz/research/kotz-jwriteback/index.html}, abstract = {Improvements in the processing speed of multiprocessors are outpacing improvements in the speed of disk hardware. Parallel disk I/O subsystems have been proposed as one way to close the gap between processor and disk speeds. Such parallel disk systems require parallel file system software to avoid performance-limiting bottlenecks. We discuss cache management techniques that can be used in a parallel file system implementation for multiprocessors with scientific workloads. We examine several writeback policies, and give results of experiments that test their performance.}, }