BibTeX for papers by David Kotz; for complete/updated list see https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~kotz/research/papers.html @TechReport{nieuwejaar:strided, author = {Nils Nieuwejaar and David Kotz}, title = {{A Multiprocessor Extension to the Conventional File System Interface}}, institution = {Dartmouth Computer Science}, year = 1994, month = {September}, number = {PCS-TR94-230}, copyright = {the authors}, URL = {https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~kotz/research/nieuwejaar-strided/index.html}, abstract = {As the I/O needs of parallel scientific applications increase, file systems for multiprocessors are being designed to provide applications with parallel access to multiple disks. Many parallel file systems present applications with a conventional Unix-like interface that allows the application to access multiple disks transparently. By tracing all the activity of a parallel file system in a production, scientific computing environment, we show that many applications exhibit highly regular, but non-consecutive I/O access patterns. Since the conventional interface does not provide an efficient method of describing these patterns, we present an extension which supports \emph{strided} and \emph{nested-strided} I/O requests.}, }