@Article{womble:intro,
  author = {David E. Womble and David S. Greenberg},
  title = {Parallel {I/O}: An introduction},
  journal = {Parallel Computing},
  year = {1997},
  month = {June},
  volume = {23},
  number = {4},
  pages = {403--417},
  publisher = {North-Holland (Elsevier Scientific)},
  keywords = {parallel I/O, pario-bib},
  comment = {A brief introduction to the topic of parallel I/O (what, why,
  current research), followed by a roundtable discussion among the authors of
  the papers in womble:special-issue. The discussion focused on three
  questions: 1) What are the biggest gaps in current I/O services? 2) Why have
  vendors failed to adopt new file system technologies? 3) How much direct
  low-level control over I/O resources should be given to the users and why?}
}