@Article{carballeira:adaptive,
  author = {Felix Garcia-Carballeira and Jesus Carretero and Alejandro Calderon
  and Jose M. Perez and Jose D. Garcia},
  title = {An adaptive cache coherence protocol specification for parallel
  input/output systems},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems},
  year = {2004},
  month = {June},
  volume = {15},
  number = {6},
  pages = {533--545},
  institution = {Univ Carlos III Madrid, Comp Architecture Grp, Madrid 28911,
  Spain; Univ Carlos III Madrid, Comp Architecture Grp, Madrid 28911, Spain},
  publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press},
  copyright = {(c)2004 Institute for Scientific Information, Inc.},
  URL = {http://csdl.computer.org/comp/trans/td/2004/06/l0533abs.htm},
  keywords = {parallel file system, caching, cache coherence, adaptive caching,
  protocol specification, pario-bib},
  abstract = {Caching has been intensively used in memory and traditional file
  systems to improve system performance. However, the use of caching in
  parallel file systems and I/O libraries has been limited to I/O nodes to
  avoid cache coherence problems. In this paper, we specify an adaptive cache
  coherence protocol very suitable for parallel file systems and parallel I/O
  libraries. This model exploits the use of caching, both at processing and I/O
  nodes, providing performance increase mechanisms as aggressive prefetching
  and delayed-write techniques. The cache coherence problem is solved by using
  a dynamic scheme of cache coherence protocols with different sizes and shapes
  of granularity. The proposed model is very appropriate for parallel I/O
  interfaces, as MPI-IO. Performance results, obtained on an IBM SP2, are
  presented to demonstrate the advantages offered by the cache management
  methods proposed.}
}