@TechReport{tan:pizzas,
  author = {Michael Tan and Nick Roussopoulos and Steve Kelley},
  title = {The {Tower of Pizzas}},
  year = {1995},
  month = {April},
  number = {UMIACS-TR-95-52},
  institution = {University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
  (UMIACS)},
  URL = {ftp://ftp.cs.umd.edu/pub/papers/papers/3462/3462.ps.Z},
  keywords = {parallel I/O, pario-bib},
  abstract = {CPU speeds are increasing at a much faster rate than secondary
  storage device speeds. Many important applications face an I/O bottleneck. We
  demonstrate that this bottleneck can be alleviated through 1) scalable
  striping of data and 2) caching/prefetching techniques. This paper describes
  the design and performance of the Tower of Pizzas (TOPs), a portable software
  system providing parallel I/O and buffering services.},
  comment = {Same as CS-TR-3462 from Department of Computer Science. Basically,
  a parallel file system for a workstation cluster using the usual parallel
  file-system ideas. They do support client-side caching, using a client-side
  server process which shares memory with the client. Otherwise nothing really
  new.}
}