@Misc{snir:hpfio, author = {Marc Snir}, title = {Proposal for {IO}}, year = {1992}, month = {August 31,}, howpublished = {Posted to HPFF I/O Forum}, note = {Second Draft}, keywords = {parallel I/O, multiprocessor file system interface, pario-bib}, comment = {An outline of two possible ways to specify mappings of arrays to storage nodes in a multiprocessor, and to make unformatted parallel transfers of multiple records. Seems to apply only to arrays, and to files that hold only arrays. It keeps the linear structure of files as sequences of records, but in some cases does not preserve the order of data items or of fields within subrecords. Tricky to understand unless you know HPF and Fortran 90.} }