@InProceedings{brezany:architecture, author = {Peter Brezany and Thomas A. Mueck and Erich Schikuta}, title = {A Software Architecture for Massively Parallel Input-Output}, booktitle = {Third International Workshop PARA'96 (Applied Parallel Computing - Industrial Computation and Optimization)}, year = {1996}, month = {August}, series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}, volume = {1186}, pages = {85--96}, publisher = {Springer-Verlag}, address = {Lyngby, Denmark}, note = {Also available as Technical Report of the Inst. f.~Angewandte Informatik u. Informationssysteme, University of Vienna, TR~96202}, URL = {http://www.pri.univie.ac.at/~schiki/research/paper/para96/para96.ps}, keywords = {compiler transformations, runtime support, parallel I/O, prefetching, pario-bib}, abstract = {For an increasing number of data intensive scientific applications, parallel I/O concepts are a major performance issue. Tackling this issue, we provide an outline of an input/output system designed for highly efficient, scalable and conveniently usable parallel I/O on distributed memory systems. The main focus of this paper is the parallel I/O runtime system support provided for software-generated programs produced by parallelizing compilers in the context of High Performance FORTRAN efforts. Specifically, our design is presented in the context of the Vienna Fortran Compilation System.} }