@Misc{hart:grid,
  author = {Leslie Hart and Tom Henderson and Bernardo Rodriguez},
  title = {An {MPI} Based Scalable Runtime System: {I/O} Support for a Grid
  Library},
  year = {1995 or earlier},
  keywords = {parallel I/O, runtime library, pario-bib},
  abstract = {In order to attain portability when using message passing on a
  distributed memory system, a portable message passing system must be used as
  well as other portable system support services. MPI[1] addresses the message
  passing problem. To date, there are no standards for system services and I/O.
  A library developed at NOAA's Forecast Systems Laboratory (FSL) known as the
  Nearest Neighbor Tool[2] (NNT) provides a high level portable interface to
  interprocess communications for finite difference approximation numerical
  weather prediction (NWP) models. In order to achieve portability, MPI is used
  to support interprocess communications. The other services are provided by
  the lower level library developed at NOAA/FSL known as the Scalable Runtime
  System (SRS). The principle focus of this paper is SRS.},
  comment = {They describe the runtime system that supports the
  Nearest-Neighbor Tool (NNT), which they use to parallelize weather-prediction
  codes. This paper gives a vague overview of the I/O support. The interface
  sounds fairly typical, as does the underlying structure (server processes,
  cache processes, etc). Sounds like it is in its early stages, but is useful
  for many applications.}
}