@InProceedings{oldfield:2006:lwfs-data-movement,
  author = {Ron A. Oldfield and Patrick Widener and Arthur B. Maccabe and Lee
  Ward and Todd Kordenbrock},
  title = {Efficient Data-Movement for Lightweight {I/O}},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2006 International Workshop on High
  Performance I/O Techniques and Deployment of Very Large Scale I/O Systems},
  year = {2006},
  month = {September},
  institution = {Sandia National Laboratories},
  address = {Barcelona, Spain},
  DOI = {10.1109/CLUSTR.2006.311897},
  URL = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/CLUSTR.2006.311897},
  keywords = {lightweight storage, data movement, scalable-io, Portals, LWFS,
  pario-bib},
  abstract = {Efficient data movement is an important part of any
  high-performance I/O system, but it is especially critical for the current
  and next-generation of massively parallel processing (MPP) systems. In this
  paper, we discuss how the scale, architecture, and organization of current
  and proposed MPP systems impact the design of the data-movement scheme for
  the I/O system. We also describe and analyze the approach used by the
  Lightweight File Systems (LWFS) project, and we compare that approach to more
  conventional data-movement protocols used by small and mid-range clusters.
  Our results indicate that the data-movement strategy used by LWFS clearly
  outperforms conventional data-movement protocols, particularly as data sizes
  increase.}
}