@Article{kotz:jwriteback,
  author = {David Kotz and Carla Schlatter Ellis},
  title = {Caching and Writeback Policies in Parallel File Systems},
  journal = {Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing},
  year = {1993},
  month = {January and February},
  volume = {17},
  number = {1--2},
  pages = {140--145},
  publisher = {Academic Press},
  copyright = {Academic Press},
  earlier = {kotz:writeback},
  URL = {http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~dfk/papers/kotz:jwriteback.ps.gz},
  URLpdf = {http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~dfk/papers/kotz:jwriteback.pdf},
  keywords = {dfk, parallel file system, disk caching, parallel I/O, MIMD,
  pario-bib},
  abstract = {Improvements in the processing speed of multiprocessors are
  outpacing improvements in the speed of disk hardware. Parallel disk I/O
  subsystems have been proposed as one way to close the gap between processor
  and disk speeds. Such parallel disk systems require parallel file system
  software to avoid performance-limiting bottlenecks. We discuss cache
  management techniques that can be used in a parallel file system
  implementation for multiprocessors with scientific workloads. We examine
  several writeback policies, and give results of experiments that test their
  performance.},
  comment = {See kotz:jpractical, kotz:fsint2, cormen:integrate.}
}