@MastersThesis{husmann:format, author = {Harlan Edward Husmann}, title = {High-Speed Format Conversion and Parallel {I/O} in Numerical Programs}, year = {1984}, month = {January}, school = {Department of Computer Science, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign}, note = {Available as TR number UIUCDCS-R-84-1152}, keywords = {parallel I/O, I/O, pario-bib}, comment = {Does FORTRAN format conversion in software in parallel or in hardware, to obtain good speedups for lots of programs. However he found that increasing the I/O bandwidth was the most significant change that could be made in the parallel program.} }