@InProceedings{weissman:smart,
  author = {Jon B. Weissman},
  title = {Smart File Objects: A Remote File Access Paradigm},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Input/Output in Parallel
  and Distributed Systems},
  year = {1999},
  month = {May},
  pages = {89--97},
  publisher = {ACM Press},
  address = {Atlanta, GA},
  URL = {http://vibes.cs.uiuc.edu/IOPADS/Accepted/Weissman.ps},
  keywords = {object, parallel I/O, pario-bib},
  abstract = {This paper describes a new scheme for remote file access called
  Smart File Objects (SFO). The SFO is an object-oriented application-specific
  file access paradigm designed to attack the bottleneck imposed by high
  latency, low bandwidth networks such as wide-area and wireless networks. The
  SFO uses application and network information to adaptively prefetch needed
  data in parallel with the execution of the application. The SFO can offer
  additional advantages such as non-blocking I/O, bulk I/O, improved file
  access APIs, and increased reliability. We describe the SFO concept, a
  prototype implementation in the Mentat system, and the results obtained with
  a distributed gene sequence application running across the Internet and vBNS.
  The results show the potential of the SFO approach to improve application
  performance.}
}