@InProceedings{watson:hpss, author = {Richard W. Watson and Robert A. Coyne}, title = {The Parallel {I/O} Architecture of the High-Performance Storage System ({HPSS})}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fourteenth IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems}, year = {1995}, month = {September}, pages = {27--44}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press}, URL = {http://www.computer.org/conferen/mss95/watson/watson.htm}, keywords = {mass storage, parallel I/O, multiprocessor file system interface, pario-bib}, abstract = {Datasets up to terabyte size and petabyte total capacities have created a serious imbalance between I/O and storage-system performance and system functionality. One promising approach is the use of parallel data-transfer techniques for client access to storage, peripheral-to-peripheral transfers, and remote file transfers. This paper describes the parallel I/O architecture and mechanisms, parallel transport protocol (PTP), parallel FTP, and parallel client application programming interface (API) used by the high-performance storage system (HPSS). Parallel storage integration issues with a local parallel file system are also discussed.} }