@InProceedings{bester:gass,
  author = {Joseph Bester and Ian Foster and Carl Kesselman and Jean Tedesco
  and Steven Tuecke},
  title = {{GASS}: A Data Movement and Access Service for Wide Area Computing
  Systems},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Input/Output in Parallel
  and Distributed Systems},
  year = {1999},
  month = {May},
  pages = {78--88},
  publisher = {ACM Press},
  address = {Atlanta, GA},
  URL = {http://vibes.cs.uiuc.edu/IOPADS/Accepted/Tedesco.ps},
  keywords = {wide-area network, parallel I/O, pario-bib},
  abstract = {In wide area computing, programs frequently execute at sites that
  are distant from their data. Data access mechanisms are required that place
  limited functionality demands on an application or host system yet permit
  high-performance implementations. To address these requirements, we propose a
  data movement and access service called Global Access to Secondary Storage
  (GASS). This service defines a global name space via Uniform Resource
  Locators and allows applications to access remote files via standard I/O
  interfaces. High performance is achieved by incorporating default data
  movement strategies that are specialized for I/O patterns common in wide area
  applications and by providing support for programmer management of data
  movement. GASS forms part of the Globus toolkit, a set of services for
  high-performance distributed computing. GASS itself makes use of Globus
  services for security and communication, and other Globus components use GASS
  services for executable staging and real-time remote monitoring. Application
  experiences demonstrate that the library has practical utility.}
}