@InProceedings{towsley:cpuio, author = {Donald F. Towsley}, title = {The Effects of {CPU: I/O} Overlap in Computer System Configurations}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 5th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture}, year = {1978}, month = {April}, pages = {238--241}, keywords = {parallel processing, parallel I/O, pario-bib}, comment = {Difficult to follow since it is missing its figures. ``Our most important result is that multiprocessor systems can benefit considerably more than single processor systems with the introduction of CPU: I/O overlap.'' They overlap I/O needed by some future CPU sequence with the current CPU operation. They claim it looks good for large numbers of processors. Their orientation seems to be for multiprocessors operating on independent tasks.} }