1. Introduction 2. Applications 3. Characteristics of Serial I/O 4. Characteristics of Parallel I/O 5. Introduction to MPI-2 Parallel I/O 6. MPI-2 File Structure 7. Initializing MPI-2 File I/O 8. Defining A View 9. Data Access - Reading Data 10.Data Access - Writing Data 11.Closing MPI-2 File I/O