@InProceedings{thakur:passion,
  author = {Rajeev Thakur and Rajesh Bordawekar and Alok Choudhary and Ravi
  Ponnusamy and Tarvinder Singh},
  title = {{PASSION} Runtime Library for Parallel {I/O}},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Scalable Parallel Libraries Conference},
  year = {1994},
  month = {October},
  pages = {119--128},
  later = {thakur:jpassion},
  URL =
  {ftp://erc.cat.syr.edu/ece/choudhary/PASSION/splc94_passion_runtime.ps.Z},
  keywords = {parallel I/O, pario-bib},
  abstract = {We are developing a compiler and runtime support system called
  PASSION: Parallel And Scalable Software for Input-Output. PASSION provides
  software support for I/O intensive out-of-core loosely synchronous problems.
  This paper gives an overview of the PASSION Runtime Library and describes two
  of the optimizations incorporated in it, namely Data Prefetching and Data
  Sieving. Performance improvements provided by these optimizations on the
  Intel Touchstone Delta are discussed, together with an out-of-core Median
  Filtering application.},
  comment = {See thakur:jpassion. They describe the PASSION library for
  parallel I/O, though the description is fairly high-level. The main things
  that this paper adds to earlier papers from this group is a discussion of
  Data Prefetching (which is really just an asynchronous I/O interface that
  their compiler uses for prefetching) and Data Sieving, which they use when
  the application needs to read some array section that is not contiguous in
  the file; for example, a submatrix of a 2-d matrix from in a file stored
  row-major. Their solution is to read the complete set of rows (or columns,
  depending on file layout) in one huge read, into a memory buffer, and then
  extract the necessary data. Basically, this is another form of the two-phase
  strategy.}
}