books.google.com - Scientific and technical programmers can no longer afford to treat I/O as an afterthought. The speed, memory size, and disk capacity of parallel computers continue to grow rapidly, but the rate at which disk drives can read and write data is improving far less quickly. As a result, the performance of...http://books.google.com/books/about/Parallel_I_O_for_High_Performance_Comput.html?id=iLj516DOIKkC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareParallel I/O for High Performance Computing
