@Article{garcia:expand-design,
  author = {F\'elix Garcia-Carballeira and Alejandro Calderon and Jesus
  Carretero and Javier Fernandez and Jose M. Perez},
  title = {The Design of the {Expand} Parallel File System},
  journal = {The International Journal of High Performance Computing
  Applications},
  year = {2003},
  volume = {17},
  number = {1},
  pages = {21--38},
  publisher = {Sage Science Press},
  URL =
  {http://www.sagepub.co.uk/JournalIssueAbstract.aspx?pid=105593&jiid=515697&jiaid=33121},
  keywords = {parallel file system, parallel I/O, pario-bib},
  abstract = {This article describes an implementation of MPI-IO using a new
  parallel file system, called Expand (Expandable Parallel File System), which
  is based on NFS servers. Expand combines multiple NFS servers to create a
  distributed partition where files are striped. Expand requires no changes to
  the NFS server and uses RPC operations to provide parallel access to the same
  file. Expand is also independent of the clients, because all operations are
  implemented using RPC and NFS protocols. Using this system, we can join
  heterogeneous servers (Linux, Solaris, Windows 2000, etc.) to provide a
  parallel and distributed partition. The article describes the design,
  implementation and evaluation of Expand with MPI-IO. This evaluation has been
  made in Linux clusters and compares Expand and PVFS.}
}