@TechReport{bagrodia:sio-character, author = {Rajive Bagrodia and Andrew Chien and Yarsun Hsu and Daniel Reed}, title = {Input/Output: Instrumentation, Characterization, Modeling and Management Policy}, year = {1994}, number = {CCSF-41}, institution = {Scalable I/O Initiative}, address = {Caltech Concurrent Supercomputing Facilities, Caltech}, URL = {http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/SIO/pubs/SIO_perf.ps}, keywords = {parallel I/O, pario-bib, prefetching, caching, multiprocessor file system, file access pattern}, comment = {Basically there are two parts to this paper. First, they will instrument applications, Intel PFS, and IBM Vesta, to trace I/O-related activity. Then they'll use Pablo to analyze and characterize. They plan to trace some events in detail, and the rest with histogram counters. Second, they plan to develop caching and prefetching policies and to analyze those with simulation, analysis, and implementation. They note that IBM and Intel are developing parallel I/O architecture simulators. See also poole:sio-survey, choudhary:sio-language, bershad:sio-os.} }