Book Description
Quality of service and adaptivity, software environments, cluster computing, grid services, networking, storage management, scheduling, high-performance storage, and case studies of systems and applications are covered by the 32 papers. Specific topics include the automatic configuration and run-time adaptation of distributed applications, a component-based services architecture for building distributed applications, evaluating cluster-based network servers, a monitoring sensor management system for grid environments, high-performance communication using a commodity network for cluster systems, failure- atomic access in an interposed network storage system, and an evaluation of alternative design for a grid information service. Abstracts are also included for 13 posters. There is no subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.