@InProceedings{carns:pvfs,
  author = {Philip H. Carns and Walter B. {Ligon III} and Robert B. Ross and
  Rajeev Thakur},
  title = {{PVFS}: A Parallel File System for Linux Clusters},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 4th Annual Linux Showcase and Conference},
  year = {2000},
  month = {October},
  pages = {317--327},
  publisher = {USENIX Association},
  address = {Atlanta, GA},
  URL = {http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~thakur/papers/pvfs.ps},
  keywords = {parallel I/O, parallel file system, cluster file system, Linux,
  pario-bib},
  abstract = {As Linux clusters have matured as platforms for low-cost,
  high-performance parallel computing, software packages to provide many key
  services have emerged, especially in areas such as message passing and
  networking. One area devoid of support, however, has been parallel file
  systems, which are critical for high-performance I/O on such clusters. We
  have developed a parallel file system for Linux clusters, called the Parallel
  Virtual File System (PVFS). PVFS is intended both as a high-performance
  parallel file system that anyone can download and use and as a tool for
  pursuing further research in parallel I/O and parallel file systems for Linux
  clusters. \par In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of
  PVFS and present performance results on the Chiba City cluster at Argonne. We
  provide performance results for a workload of concurrent reads and writes for
  various numbers of compute nodes, I/O nodes, and I/O request sizes. We also
  present performance results for MPI-IO on PVFS, both for a concurrent
  read/write workload and for the BTIO benchmark. We compare the I/O
  performance when using a Myrinet network versus a fast-ethernet network for
  I/O-related communication in PVFS. We obtained read and write bandwidths as
  high as 700~Mbytes/sec with Myrinet and 225~Mbytes/sec with fast ethernet.},
  comment = {won the Best Paper Award.}
}