Advanced Environments, Tools, and Applications for Cluster Computing [electronic resource] : NATO Advanced Research Workshop, IWCC 2001, Mangalia, Romania, September 1-6, 2001. Revised Papers /

Invited Papers -- Grid Computing: A New Technology for the Advanced Web -- Beyond Flexibility and Reflection: The Virtual Virtual Machine Approach -- Programming Models for Cluster Computing -- About Design and Efficiency of Distributed Programming: Some Algorithmic Aspects -- A Collaborative Environment for High Performance Computing -- Layer 4 Fault Tolerance: Reliability Techniques for Cluster System in Internet Services -- Computational Issues in E-commerce Trading Exchanges -- Embedded Cluster Computing through Dynamic Reconfigurability of Inter-processor Connections -- Papers -- Parallelisation of Wave Propagation Algorithms for Odour Propagation in Multi-agent Systems -- Parallel and Distributed Solutions for the Optimal Binary Search Tree Problem -- A Framework for Efficient Sparse LU Factorization in a Cluster Based Platform -- Task Allocation Using Processor Load Prediction on Multiprocessors Cluster -- Heterogeneous Dynamic Load Balancing -- Multi-application Scheduling in Networks of Workstations and Clusters of Processors -- The Parallel Algorithm of Conjugate Gradient Method -- A Parallel Similarity Search in High Dimensional Metric Space Using M-Tree -- A User-Level Interface for Clustering Mathematical Software Kernels -- Implementing Multithreaded Protocols for Release Consistency on Top of the Generic DSM-PM2 Platform -- Communication Balancing for Wireless Nodes in a LAN-WAN Cluster -- An Architecture and Task Scheduling Algorithm for Systems Based on Dynamically Reconfigurable Shared Memory Clusters -- Distributed Rendering Engine -- A Distributed Application for Monte Carlo Simulations -- A Model for Accessing Resources of the Distributed File Systems -- Coarse-Grain Parallelization of Test Vectors Generation on Multiprocessor Systems -- OpenMP/MPI Programming in a Multi-cluster System Based on Shared Memory/Message Passing Communication -- Expressing Parallelism in Java Applications Distributed on Clusters -- Advanced Collaboration Techniques between Java Objects Distributed on Clusters -- Java Tools for Measurement of the Machine Loads -- The Parallel FDTD Algorithm and Its Application to the Analysis of Complex Structures -- A Theoretical Application of Feedback Guided Dynamic Loop Scheduling -- DIM - A Distributed Image Processing System, Based on ISO IEC 12087 Image Processing Standard -- DisMedJava - A Distributed Application for Medical Image Processing.

Started by small group of well known scientists with the aim of sharing knowledge, experiences, and results on all aspects of cluster computing, the initiative of a workshop on cluster computing received more attention after IFIP WG 10.3 and IEEE Romania Section accepted our request for sponsorship. Moreover, the application for a NATO ARW grant was successful, leading to a greater interest in the workshop. In this respect, we have to say that we chose Romania in order to attract scientists from Central and Eastern European countries and improve the cooperation in the region, in the field of cluster computing. We had an extremely short time to organize the event, but many people joined us and enthusiastically contributed to the process. The success of the workshop is wholly due to the hard work of the organizing committee, members of the program committee, key speakers, speakers from industry, and authors of accepted papers. The workshop consisted of invited and regular paper presentations, followed by discussions, on many important current and emerging topics ranging from sheduling and load balancing to grids. The key speakers devoted their time and efforts to presenting the most interesting results of their research groups, and we all thank them for this . All papers were peer reviewed by two or three reviewers.