Distributed and Parallel Systems: Cluster and Grid Computing

✍ Scribed by Andrzej M. Goscinski (auth.), Péter Kacsuk, Dieter Kranzlmüller, Zsolt Németh, Jens Volkert (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 222
• Series: The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science 706
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Distributed and Parallel Systems: Cluster and Grid Computing is the proceedings of the fourth Austrian-Hungarian Workshop on Distributed and Parallel Systems organized jointly by Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria and the MTA SZTAKI Computer and Automation Research Institute.

The papers in this volume cover a broad range of research topics presented in four groups. The first one introduces cluster tools and techniques, especially the issues of load balancing and migration. Another six papers deal with grid and global computing including grid infrastructure, tools, applications and mobile computing. The next nine papers present general questions of distributed development and applications. The last four papers address a crucial issue in distributed computing: fault tolerance and dependable systems.

This volume will be useful to researchers and scholars interested in all areas related to parallel and distributed computing systems.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Toward a Cluster Operating System that Offers a Single System Image....Pages 3-11
Load Balancing for P-Grade Parallel Applications....Pages 12-20
Exploiting Runtime Information in Load Balancing Strategies....Pages 21-29
Server Based Migration of Parallel Applications....Pages 30-37
Predicting Performance of SMP Clusters....Pages 38-45
A Data Intensive Computation on a Cluster....Pages 46-53
Front Matter....Pages 55-55
Information System Architecture for Brokering in Large Scale Grids....Pages 57-65
Experiments in Load Balancing Across the Grid Via a Code Transformation....Pages 66-73
Towards a Robust and Fault-Tolerant Multicast Discovery Architecture for Global Computing Grids....Pages 74-81
C3 Power Tools....Pages 82-89
Interactive Virtual Reality Volume Visualization on the Grid....Pages 90-97
Ubiquitous Context Sensing in Wireless Environments....Pages 98-106
Front Matter....Pages 107-107
Application of P-Grade Development Environment in Meteorology....Pages 109-116
MRT — An Approach to Minimize the Replay Time During Debugging Message Passing Programs....Pages 117-124
Ant — A Testing Environment for Nondeterministic Parallel Programs....Pages 125-132
Semantic Elements for Parallel Computing in ORB(M)....Pages 133-140
A Mobile Agent-Based Infrastructure for an Adaptive Multimedia Server....Pages 141-148
An Adaptive MPEG-4 Proxy Cache....Pages 149-156
Distributed Training of Universal Multi-Nested Neurons....Pages 157-164
Parallel Traffic Simulation in Spider Programming Environment....Pages 165-172
Front Matter....Pages 107-107
Conformance Testing of Parallel Languages....Pages 173-181
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
A Dependable High Performance Serial Storage Architecture....Pages 185-194
Modeling Uncertainty in System-Level Fault Diagnosis Using Process Graphs....Pages 195-202
Tolerating Stop Failures in Distributed Maple....Pages 203-210
A Mechanism to Detect Wireless Network Failures for MPI Programs....Pages 211-218
Back Matter....Pages 219-219

✦ Subjects

Processor Architectures; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems