@InProceedings{seamons:schemas, author = {K. E. Seamons and M. Winslett}, title = {Physical Schemas for Large Multidimensional Arrays in Scientific Computing Applications}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 7th International Working Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management}, year = {1994}, month = {September}, pages = {218--227}, URL = {http://bunny.cs.uiuc.edu/CADR/pubs/ssdbm.ps}, keywords = {parallel I/O, scientific database, scientific computing, pario-bib}, comment = {``This paper presents PANDA's high-level interfaces for i/o operations, including checkpoint, restart, and time step output, and explains the rationale behind them.'' Basically they provide a bit of detail for the file formats they use in seamons:interface} }