Distributed and Parallel Systems

Preface; P. Kacsuk, et al. Program Committee. Cluster Computing: Tools and Techniques. Toward a Cluster Operating System that Offers a Single System Image; A.M. Goscinski. Load Balancing for P-GRADE Parallel Applications; M.L. Tóth, et al. Exploiting Runtime Information in Load Balancing Strategies; V. Felea. Server Based Migration of Parallel Applications; J. Kovács, P. Kacsuk. Predicting Performance of SMP Clusters; R. Cejka, et al. A Data Intensive Computation on a Cluster; Z. Horváth, et al. Global and Grid Computing. Information System Architecture for Brokering in Large Scale Grids; Z. Balaton, et al. Experiments in Load Balancing Across the Grid via a Code Transformation; E. Violard, et al. Towards a Robust and Fault-Tolerant Multicast Discovery Architecture for Global Computing Grids; Z. Juhász, et al. C3 Power Tools: The Next Generation...; B. Luethke, et al. Interactive Virtual Reality Volume Visualization on the Grid; P. Heinzlreiter, et al. Ubiquitous Context Sensing in Wireless Environments; A. Ferscha, et al. Parallel and Distributed Software Development and Applications. Application of P-GRADE Development Environment in Meteorology; R. Lovas, et al. MRT - An Approach to Minimize the Replay Time During Debugging Message Passing Programs; N. Thoai, J. Volkert. ANT - A Testing Environment for Nondeterministic Parallel Programs; D. Kranzlmüller, et al. Semantic Elements for Parallel Computing in ORB(M); A. Ulbert. A Mobile Agent-based Infrastructure for an Adaptive Multimedia Server; B. Goldschmidt, et al. An Adaptive MPEG-4 Proxy Cache; P. Schojer, et al. Distributed Training of Universal Multi-Nested Neurons; F. Ionescu, et al.Parallel Traffic Simulation in Spider Programming Environment; D. Igbe, et al. Conformace Testing of Parallel Languages; L. Garstecki, et al. Dependable and fault tolerant systems. A Dependable High Performance Serial Storage Architecture; G. Rotondi, et al. Modeling Uncertainty in System-Level Fault Diagnosis Using Process Graphs; B. Polgár, et al. Tolerating Stop Failures in Distributed Maple; K. Bósa, W. Schreiner. A Mechanism to Detect Wireless Network Failures for MPI Programs; E.M. Macías, A. Suárez. Author Index.