EDITOR PREFACEFOREWORDLIST OF CONTRIBUTORSPART 1 GENERAL ISSUESThe Advanced Networks and Services Underpinning Modern, Large-Scale Science: DOE's Esnet, W. E. Johnston.Netsolve: Grid Enabling Scientific Computing Environments, K. Seymour, A. Yarkhan, S. Agrawal, and J. Dongarra.Operations Research Methods for Resource Management and Scheduling in a Computational Grid: a Survey,A. Attanasio, G. Ghiani, L. Grandinetti, E. Guerriero and F. Guerriero.Peer-to-Peer Protocols and Grid Services for Resource Discovery on Grids, D. Talia and P. Trunfio.Data Placement in Widely Distributed Environments, T. Kosar, S.-C. Son, G. Kola and M. Livny.The Grid Relational Catalog Project, G. Aloisio, M. Cafaro, S. Fiore and M. Mirto.PART 2 PERFORMANCEThe "MIND" Scalable PIM Architecture, T. Sterling and M. Brodowicz.SLA-aware Job Migration in Grid Environments, F. Heine, M. Hovestadt, O. Kao and A. KellerMicro-grids - the exploitation of massive on-chip concurrency, C. R. JesshopeAutonomous Performance and Risk Management in LargeDistributed Systems and Grids, M. Brittan and J. KowalikOptimization Techniques for Skeletons on Grids,M. Aldinucci, M. Danelutto, J. Duennweber and S. GorlatchTowards a Middleware Framework for Dynamically Reconfigurable Scientific Computing, K. El Maghraoui, T. Desell, B. K. Szymanski, J. D. Teresco, and C. A. Varela.PART 3 APPLICATIONSMessaging in Web Service Grid with Applications to Geographical Information Systems, G. Fox, S. Pallickara, G. Aydin and M. PierceNewsGrid, S. Geisler, G. R. JoubertUNICORE - From Project Results to Production Grids, A. Streit, D. Erwin, Th. Lippert, D. Mallmann, R. Menday, M. Rambadt, M. Riedel, M. Romberg, B. Schuller and Ph. WiederDeveloping Innovative Technologies for the Grid, J.-P. Prost, L. Berman, R. Chang, M. Devarakonda, M. Haynos, W.-S. Li, Y. Li, I. Narang, J. Unger and D. VermaTools for Efficient Subsetting and Pipelined Processing of Large Scale, Distributed Biomedical Image Data, M. Ribeiro, T. Kurc,Tony Pan, K. Huang, U. Catalyurek, X. Zhang, S. Langella, S. Hastings, S. Oster, R. Ferreira and J. Saltz.
