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 prcpose 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 de fault data movement strategies that are specialized for IjO 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 …

Metadata

publication

Proceedings of the Sixth workshop on I/O in Parallel and Distributed Systems …, 1999

year

1999

publication date

1999/5/1

authors

Joseph Bester, Ian Foster, Carl Kesselman, Jean Tedesco, Steven Tuecke

link

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/301816.301839

resource_link

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/301816.301839

book

Proceedings of the Sixth workshop on I/O in Parallel and Distributed Systems

pages

78-88