reading an array of parallel input data

Hi,

Thanks first of all for the previous responses that have been of great
help to me.
I have to write another test bench for a unit that takes on 8 inputs
(each of 10 bits)parallely. There will be an array of minimum of 1024
such elements(integer number of 1024 in general) in the data file.
What should be the format of the data file and how should be the
reading operation in VHDL. It's similar to corner memory where we
input data horizontally and read out vertically.

thanks.