9. HPDC 2000: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Ninth IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC'00), 1-4 August 2000, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, Proceedings. IEEE Conputer Society, online publication: http: //computer.org/proceedings/hpdc/0783/0783toc.htm

QoS and Adaptivity

Dongyan Xu, Klara Nahrstedt, Arun Viswanathan, Duangdao Wichadakul:
QoS and Contention-Aware Multi-Resource Reservation. 3-10
Fangzhe Chang, Vijay Karamcheti:
Automatic Configuration and Run-time Adaptation of Distributed Applications. 11-20
Xiaohui Shen, Alok N. Choudhary:
A Distributed Multi-Storage Resource Architecture and I/O Performance Prediction for Scientific Computing. 21-

Software Environments

J. Davison de St. Germain, Steven G. Parker, John McCorquodale, Christopher R. Johnson:
Uintah: A Massively Parallel Problem Solving Environment. 33-42
Jean-Pierre Goux, Sanjeev Kulkarni, Jeff Linderoth, Michael Yoder:
An Enabling Framework for Master-Worker Applications on the Computational Grid. 43-50
Randall Bramley, Kenneth Chiu, Shridhar Diwan, Dennis Gannon, Madhusudhan Govindaraju, Nirmal Mukhi, Benjamin Temko, Madhuri Yechuri:
A Component based Services Architecture for Building Distributed Applications. 51-

Cluster Computing

Ricardo Bianchini, Enrique V. Carrera:
Evaluating Cluster-based Network Servers. 63-70
Li Xiao, Xiaodong Zhang, Stefan A. Kubricht:
Incorporating Job Migration and Network RAM to Share Cluster Memory Resources. 71-78
Douglas Thain, Miron Livny:
Bypass: A Tool for Building Split Execution Systems. 79-86
Jasmine Y. Q. Wang, Joon Suan Ong, Yvonne Coady, Michael J. Feeley:
Using Idle Workstations to Implement Predictive Prefetching. 87-

Grid Services

Brian Tierney, Brian Crowley, Dan Gunter, Mason Holding, Jason Lee, Mary R. Thompson:
A Monitoring Sensor Management System for Grid Environments. 97-104
Jörn Gehring, Achim Streit:
Robust Resource Management for Metacomputers. 105-112
Greg Eisenhauer, Fabián E. Bustamante, Karsten Schwan:
Event Services for High Performance Computing. 113-120
Yoshio Tanaka, Motonori Hirano, Mitsuhisa Sato, Hidemoto Nakada, Satoshi Sekiguchi:
Performance Evaluation of a Firewall-Compliant Globus-based Wide-Area Cluster System. 121-

Networking

Christian Kurmann, Michael Müller, Felix Rauch, Thomas Stricker:
Speculative Defragmentation - A Technique to Improve the Communication Software Efficiency for Gigabit Ethernet. 131-138
Shinji Sumimoto, Hiroshi Tezuka, Atsushi Hori, Hiroshi Harada, Toshiyuki Takahashi, Yutaka Ishikawa:
High Performance Communication using a Commodity Network for Cluster Systems. 139-146
Richard Wolski, Benjamin Gaidioz, Bernard Tourancheau:
Synchronizing Network Probes to Avoid Measurement Intrusiveness with the Network Weather Service. 147-

Storage Management

Darrell C. Anderson, Jeffrey S. Chase:
Failure-Atomic File Access in an Interposed Network Storage System. 157-164
Brian S. White, Andrew S. Grimshaw, Anh Nguyen-Tuong:
Grid-based File Access: The Legion I/O Model. 165-174
Craig J. Patten, Kenneth A. Hawick:
Flexible High-Performance Access to Distributed Storage Resources. 175-

Case Studies: Systems

Warren Smith, Abdul Waheed, David Meyers, Jerry C. Yan:
An Evaluation of Alternative Designs for a Grid Information Service. 185-192
Judy I. Beiriger, Wilbur R. Johnson, Hugh P. Bivens, Steven L. Humphreys, Ronald Rhea:
Constructing the ASCI Computational Grid. 193-200
Fabio Kon, Roy H. Campbell, M. Dennis Mickunas, Klara Nahrstedt, Francisco J. Ballesteros:
2K: A Distributed Operating System for Dynamic Heterogeneous Environments. 201-210

Scheduling

Bianca Schroeder, Mor Harchol-Balter:
Evaluation of Task Assignment Policies for Supercomputing Servers: The Case for Load Unbalancing and Fairness. 211-220
Cosimo Anglano:
A Comparative Evaluation of Implicit Coscheduling Strategies for Networks of Workstations. 221-228
André Turgeon, Quinn Snell, Mark J. Clement:
Application Placement using Performance Surfaces. 229-

Case Studies: Applications

Luc Renambot, Henri E. Bal, Desmond Germans, Hans J. W. Spoelder:
CAVEStudy: An Infrastructure for Computational Steering in Virtual Reality Environments. 239-246
Jörg Nolte, Paul Horton:
Parallel Matching and Sorting with TACO's Distributed Collections - A Case Study from Molecular Biology Research. 247-252
Gabrielle Allen, Werner Benger, Tom Goodale, Hans-Christian Hege, Gerd Lanfermann, André Merzky, Thomas Radke, Edward Seidel, John Shalf:
The Cactus Code: A Problem Solving Environment for the Grid. 253-

High-Performance Storage

Beth Plale, Karsten Schwan:
dQUOB: Managing Large Data Flows using Dynamic Embedded Queries. 263-270
Jacek Becla, Andrew Hanushevsky:
Creating Large Scale Database Servers. 271-278
Kai Hwang, Hai Jin, Roy S. C. Ho:
RAID-x: A New Distributed Disk Array for I/O-Centric Cluster Computing. 279-

Poster Session

Hans-Ulrich Heiss, César A. F. De Rose, Philippe Olivier Alexandre Navaux:
Distributed Processor Allocation in Large PC Clusters. 288-289
Rajesh Raman, Miron Livny, Marvin H. Solomon:
Resource Management through Multilateral Matchmaking. 290-291
Thomas H. Hinke, Jason Novotny:
Data Mining on NASA's Information Power Grid. 292-293
Randall D. Burris, M. K. Gleicher, H. H. Holmes, D. L. Million, S. R. White:
Probe - A Distributed Storage Testbed. 294-295
Hiroaki Nishi, Koji Tasho, Junji Yamamoto, Tomohiro Kudoh, Hideharu Amano:
A Local Area System Network RHinet-1: A Network for High Performance Parallel Computing. 296-297
Jim Basney, Miron Livny:
Managing Network Resources in Condor. 298-299
Daniel Andresen, Robert Novotny:
The Modeler's Workbench: A System for Dynamically Distributed Simulation and Data Collection. 300-301
Xingfu Wu, Valerie E. Taylor, Jonathan Geisler, Xin Li, Zhiling Lan, Rick L. Stevens, Mark Hereld, Ivan R. Judson:
Prophesy: An Infrastructure for Analyzing and Modeling the Performance of Parallel and Distributed Applications. 302-303
Rajeev Muralidhar, Manish Parashar:
An Object Infrastructure for Computational Steering of Distributed Simulations. 304-305
Sumalatha Adabala, Nirav H. Kapadia, José A. B. Fortes:
Interfacing Wide-Area Network Computing and Cluster Management Software: Condor, DQS and PBS via PUNCH. 306-307
Mary Thomas, Stephen Mock, Jay Boisseau:
Development of Web Toolkits for Computational Science Portals: The NPACI HotPage. 308-309
Igor Terekhov, Victoria White:
Distributed Data Access in the Sequential Access Model in the D0 Experiment at Fermilab. 310-311
Stéphane Gouache, Thierry Priol:
Coupling of Industrial Simulation Codes using CORBA. 312-314