@InProceedings{isaila:viewio,
  author = {Florin Isaila and Walter F. Tichy},
  title = {View I/O: improving the performance of non-contiguous I/O.},
  booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing},
  year = {2003},
  month = {December},
  pages = {336--343},
  publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press},
  address = {Hong Kong, China},
  URL = {http://www.ipd.uka.de/~florin/Publications/mypaper.pdf},
  keywords = {non-contiguous I/O, parallel file structure, pario-bib},
  abstract = {This paper presents view I/O, a non-contiguous parallel I/O
  technique. We show that the linear file model may be an unsuitable
  abstraction for non-contiguous I/O optimizations. Additionally, the poor
  cooperation between a file system and an I/O library like MPI-IO may
  drastically affect the performance. View I/O has detailed knowledge about
  parallel structure of a file and about the potential access pattern and
  exploits it in order to improve performance. The access overhead is reduced
  by using a strategy "declare once, use several times" and by file off-set
  compaction. We compare and contrast view I/O with other non-contiguous I/O
  methods. Our measurements on a cluster of computers indicate a significant
  performance improvement over other approaches. (15 refs.)}
}