@InProceedings{oldfield:2006:lwfs,
  author = {Ron A. Oldfield and Arthur B. Maccabe and Sarala Arunagiri and Todd
  Kordenbrock and Rolf Riesen and Lee Ward and Patrick Widener},
  title = {Lightweight {I/O} for Scientific Applications},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Cluster
  Computing},
  year = {2006},
  month = {September},
  institution = {Sandia National Laboratories},
  address = {Barcelona, Spain},
  DOI = {10.1109/CLUSTR.2006.311853},
  URL = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/CLUSTR.2006.311853},
  keywords = {lightweight storage, checkpoint, scalable-io, LWFS, pario-bib},
  abstract = {Today?s high-end massively parallel processing (MPP) machines
  have thousands to tens of thousands of processors, with next-generation
  systems planned to have in excess of one hundred thousand processors. For
  systems of such scale, efficient I/O is a significant challenge that cannot
  be solved using traditional approaches. In particular, general purpose
  parallel file systems that limit applications to standard interfaces and
  access policies do not scale and will likely be a performance bottleneck for
  many scientific applications. In this paper, we investigate the use of a
  ?lightweight? approach to I/O that requires the application or I/O-library
  developer to extend a core set of critical I/O functionality with the minimum
  set of features and services required by its target applications. We argue
  that this approach allows the development of I/O libraries that are both
  scalable and secure. We support our claims with preliminary results for a
  lightweight checkpoint operation on a development cluster at Sandia.}
}