@InProceedings{pasquale:characterization,
  author = {Barbara K. Pasquale and George C. Polyzos},
  title = {Dynamic {I/O} characterization of {I/O} intensive scientific
  applications},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of Supercomputing '94},
  year = {1994},
  pages = {660--669},
  URL =
  {http://www.acm.org/pubs/citations/proceedings/supercomputing/198354/p660-pasquale/},
  keywords = {parallel I/O, pario-bib},
  abstract = {Understanding the characteristic I/O behavior of scientific
  applications is an integral part of the research and development efforts for
  the improvement of high performance I/O systems. This study focuses on
  application level I/O behavior with respect to both static and dynamic
  characteristics. We observed the San Diego Supercomputer Center's Cray C90
  workload and isolated the most I/O intensive applications. The combination of
  a low-level description of physical resource usage and the high-level
  functional composition of applications and scientific disciplines for this
  set reveals the major sources of I/O demand in the workload. We selected two
  applications from the I/O intensive set and performed a detailed analysis of
  their dynamic I/O behavior. These applications exhibited a high degree of
  regularity in their I/O activity over time and their characteristic I/O
  behaviors can be precisely described by one and two, respectively, recurring
  sequences of data accesses and computation periods.}
}